Phoebe Gates reveals that Tech billionaires Father Bill Gates has the Asperger syndrome, calls him “socially cumbersome”

The 22 -year -old was published in the “Call Her Daddy” podcast by Alex Cooper. He was asked what it was like to present friends to her billionaire father. The independent reported.

“For the guy, terrifying. For me it is strange because my father is quite uncomfortable,” she said. “As he has already said, he has Asperger. So how to me it's so funny.”

The 69-year-old Tech billionaire has not publicly identified as Asperger's syndrome, a now retired diagnosis that was previously used for some people with autism. Today it is part of the Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), a broader classification, which includes challenges with social interaction, communication, repetitive behavior and obsessive interests.

In his memoir “source code: my beginning”, published on February 4th and the extract of The Wall Street JournalGates wrote: “If I grew up today, I would probably be diagnosed in autism spectrum.”

“My parents had no travel posts or textbooks that help them understand why their son was so obsessed with certain projects, missed social information and could be rude or inappropriate without realizing his effects on others,” he wrote.

Gates also found that the term “neurodivergent” was only shaped in the 1990s and that formal tests on ASD were only available in the 1980s. At that time he was thirty and early in the late twenties.

In an interview in February with AxiosGates said he realized at a young age that he was different from his colleagues. “I always knew that I was different in a way that confused people in terms of my energy level and my intensity and simply studied things,” he said. “And it is a little confusing when you are a child that you are different or that people react to you in a way or in your social skills – you suspect in different things.”

“I definitely think my parents, maybe a little unintentionally because there was no diagnosis, but the way they explain things to me or make me to contact me,” he added.

He remembered the first time when someone suggested that he could have ASD: “Someone said to me:” Are you in the spectrum? “It was like 25 years ago,” he said. “I remember that I thought: 'What the hell? What the hell? I lead a damn society.' And then I realized that it was probably true.

Despite the challenges, Gates said that he had no desire to change how his mind works. In an interview with The timesHe said: “If you ever invent a pill where you could say:” Ok, your social skills will be normal, but your ability to concentrate would also be normal, “I would not take the pill” and added that his unique cognitive wiring made it possible for him to write his first computer code as a teenager and lay the foundation for Microsoft.

From April 14th, Forbes Estimated gates' net assets of 107.5 billion US dollars.