- As a child, Elon Musk had trouble understanding social cues because he didn’t have any friends at school.
- As a result, he began reading books for social cues, according to his new biography.
- When Elon Musk was a teenager, he followed his sister to clubs and parties to avoid loneliness.
billionaire Elon Musk His new biography, written by Walter Isaacson, says he was a lonely child who struggled to make friends at school and had difficulty understanding social cues.
Isaacson said Elon Musk’s mother, Maye Musk, raised him when he was three years old, despite the principal’s warning that Elon Musk would experience social difficulties younger than anyone else in his class. She wrote that she sent him to a nursery school because he was “intellectually curious.”
“That was a mistake,” Isaacson wrote. “She didn’t have any friends in Elon, and by the time she was a sophomore, she was completely estranged.”
Isaacson said Elon Musk later identified his problems as Asperger’s syndrome, a type of autism spectrum disorder that causes emotional and social problems and As a result, she says, she has become “not good at picking up on social cues.”
“I took people literally when they said something,” Elon Musk told Isaacson. “And it wasn’t until I read the book that I started to realize that people don’t always mean what they really mean.”
Musk “favored things that were more precise, like engineering, physics, and coding,” Isaacson wrote.
May Musk told Isaacson that Elon Musk “became very lonely and sad” when he started school.
“Kimbal and Tosca made friends on the first day and brought them home, but Elon didn’t bring any friends home. He wanted friends but didn’t know how. ”
when Elon Musk According to the book, he was still a teenager, his family lived in Toronto for a short time, and he insisted that he follow his younger sister, Tosca Mask, to clubs and parties so she wouldn’t be lonely.
Tosca Musk, a “sassy teenager” who likes to go out often, allowed her younger brother to come with her, but ordered him to “stay 10 feet away” from her “at all times.”
Isaacson wrote that Musk “walked behind his girlfriend and her friends and always had a book to read when they went to clubs or parties.”
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