I bet a large part of the Navy code breakers who deciphered the Imperial Japanese Naval code, leading to victory at Midway, would be diagnosed as autistic. That unit was infamous for its lax discipline but give credit to the higher ups who left alone to do their job.
Did not during WW 2, they had native Americans do major code breaking work?
Even more interestingly, his parents and several other family members were in a detention camp near Delta, Utah while he was doing this work.
I have sometimes wondered what I would have been "diagnosed" with, had today's Big Education and Big Psychiatry mentality prevailed almost a half century ago. I'm quite certain it would be some "disorder", and I'm very glad to have grown up without being labeled, counseled, and medicated.
“I bet a large part of the Navy code breakers who deciphered the Imperial Japanese Naval code, leading to victory at Midway, would be diagnosed as autistic. That unit was infamous for its lax discipline but give credit to the higher ups who left them alone to do their job.”
There may have been some autistic savants in that group.
However, their Naval Group, NavSecGrp, was very informal. During the Nam years no one in the reserves wore their uniforms to and from the meeting and even at the meeting. Part of that may have been due the hostile actions of the teachers/mentors of Obozo towards our military in uniform.
One group went to a two week exercise at Ft Meade without their uniforms. The same group a year later, relieved most of a state side regular unit at a base and never took their uniforms. On active duty on a ship, NavSecGrp sailors wore Navy uniforms.