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Again, it's a form of autism that presents as (primarily) social ineptness.
Asperger's Syndrome-Symptoms
I know one who is a journalist and geologist and the other who is a student who was identified as being gifted at a very young age and is now finishing college.
Michael Lewis in his book The Big Short profiled a hedge fund manager who has Asperger's and made a fortune by shorting subprime mortgages. He said that if he didn't have Asperger's, he probably wouldn't have become rich because his extremely obsessive behavior is what caused him to do the research necessary.