e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/11/2024as a child, Elon wouldn't hesitate to ask adults "are you stupid or something," Errol says. He tried to teach the young Elon that it was rude to say that, even if the person was in fact stupid, but it would seem that the lesson didn't really stick 346222
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/11/2024In second grade Elon's teachers asked Errol to come in to meet with them. He was worried his son had told a teacher they were stupid, but the teachers were actually worried that Elon was "retarded." "That's the word the used," Errol says. Apparently the problem was that Elon didn't engage with them. 751041
e.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 26/11/2024Elon had been staring out the window for hours, and wouldn't respond to teachers, until one finally got his attention and all the young Musk said was "the trees are turning green." "So they came to the conclusion that he's retarded," Errol says. "What I did was put him in a better school." 441322
Raging Spirit @ragingspirit.bsky.social · 26/11/2024There's one thing i like about Errol Musk. He gives zero fucks about his son's carefully crafted legend. 0160
Our Lady of Perpetual Disappointment @rkfatheree.bsky.social · 27/11/2024I think Elon’s mother has confused her son’s developmental delays with genius. Basically the Noble Savage fallacy. “Elon has poor social skills because he’s superior to people with emotions.” 🙄 070
Dan Davis @bindlestiff.bsky.social · 27/11/2024So very clear, even allowing for the reliability of the source, that Elon is on the Autism spectrum, roughly at what used to be called “Asperger’s Syndrome.” No, he wasn’t “retarded,” but he needed a diagnosis and obviously never got one. 000
