SOME ADVANTAGES OF ASPERGER’S.

SOME ADVANTAGES OF ASPERGER’S. What kind of person could successfully make an analysis of a financial security which required reading 30,000 pages of documentation to understand it and then put over a billion dollars at risk based on that analysis? I posted here on the proposition advanced by Temple Grandin and Tyler Cowen that some intellectual achievements have been made because they were made by people on the autistic spectrum. Michael Burry had from when he was young “attributed his unusual powers of concentration to his lack of interest in human interaction.” During the course of Burry’s bets against subprime mortgage CDO’s, Burry’s four year old son was diagnosed with Asperger’s—and so was Burry. Michael Lewis says that the diagnosis explained a lot about what Burry did for a living: “his obsessive acquisition of hard facts, his insistence on logic, his ability to plow quickly through reams of tedious financial statements.” Lewis quotes Burry himself as saying: “Only someone who has Asperger’s would read a subprime-mortgage-bond-prospectus.”