Aspergers-type autism wasn't even a diagnostic label in the Western world till 1993. Reid would've already been a teenager by then. Probably his K-12 teachers would've explained away his autistic-type stuff as him just being highly gifted, and by then his mom was in no shape to question anything...
CalTech = full of Aspie-autie "Silicon Valley types", so Reid wouldn't have been seen as especially unusual there.
There are a LOT of late-diagnosed Aspie autistic folks out there, for a combination of the above reasons.
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Date: Oct. 18th, 2012 12:30 pm (UTC)CalTech = full of Aspie-autie "Silicon Valley types", so Reid wouldn't have been seen as especially unusual there.
There are a LOT of late-diagnosed Aspie autistic folks out there, for a combination of the above reasons.