I have never been officially diagnosed, and I don't really want to be.
I know I'm intelligent. I know I'm somewhat OCD. I know I've made very grave social errors by thinking too literally. I know I thought of away to draw a square circle. I know I can only do math in my head if I do it backwards. I know I've ended up in two foreign countries trying to understand a character I was studying/obsessed with at the time. (Canada and Scotland, fortunately) I know I system-crashed in high school and dropped two grades in a single semester, but got a lot better at social interaction afterwords. I know how to fix a jet engine, the right way. I know that whatever this is, I got it from my dad, and he got it from his. They did okay without being officially diagnosed, and I figure I can too. I'm not offended by unofficial attempts though (G), and you may have insights into this I that don't.
As for Tony, he couldn't have read the book under the link until recently due to the timing, but Machiavelli's 'The Prince' (your theoretical "... And how you manipulate the people around you for fun and profit" sequel) has been out for centuries. Considering some of the shit we've seen Tony pull, I KNOW he's read that one. As for the rest of Human interactions, I think the media of the past may have had a lot to do with it, from 'Jules Verne' to 'Goofus and Gallant'. He's also dropped one big clue about when he started to gain ierest in the outside world, in the form of Mallory's 'La Morte D'Arthur'. Tony learned how to act, as a -hero-, directly from the Aurthurian legends available at the time. He already knew about the social utility of 'power suits' from his father, so the idea that a properly equipped hero would need a suit of metal armor wouldn't have been that much of a stretch.
This is also, regrettably, part of the reason women get hung up on him. Something about the way he speaks and acts reminds them of a combination of knight-in-shining-armor and/or their dad (body language quirks absorbed through past media sources). When they start acting accordingly and fixating on him, Tony feels trapped and looks for an escape route. Except when his love interest fits into the mold of being another kind of 'knight', like Bethany Cabe. ..Or, say, another Avenger.
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I know I'm intelligent. I know I'm somewhat OCD. I know I've made very grave social errors by thinking too literally.
I know I thought of away to draw a square circle.
I know I can only do math in my head if I do it backwards.
I know I've ended up in two foreign countries trying to understand a character I was studying/obsessed with at the time. (Canada and Scotland, fortunately)
I know I system-crashed in high school and dropped two grades in a single semester, but got a lot better at social interaction afterwords.
I know how to fix a jet engine, the right way.
I know that whatever this is, I got it from my dad, and he got it from his.
They did okay without being officially diagnosed, and I figure I can too.
I'm not offended by unofficial attempts though (G), and you may have insights into this I that don't.
As for Tony, he couldn't have read the book under the link until recently due to the timing, but Machiavelli's 'The Prince' (your theoretical "... And how you manipulate the people around you for fun and profit" sequel) has been out for centuries.
Considering some of the shit we've seen Tony pull, I KNOW he's read that one.
As for the rest of Human interactions, I think the media of the past may have had a lot to do with it, from 'Jules Verne' to 'Goofus and Gallant'. He's also dropped one big clue about when he started to gain ierest in the outside world, in the form of Mallory's 'La Morte D'Arthur'.
Tony learned how to act, as a -hero-, directly from the Aurthurian legends available at the time. He already knew about the social utility of 'power suits' from his father, so the idea that a properly equipped hero would need a suit of metal armor wouldn't have been that much of a stretch.
This is also, regrettably, part of the reason women get hung up on him. Something about the way he speaks and acts reminds them of a combination of knight-in-shining-armor and/or their dad (body language quirks absorbed through past media sources). When they start acting accordingly and fixating on him, Tony feels trapped and looks for an escape route.
Except when his love interest fits into the mold of being another kind of 'knight', like Bethany Cabe. ..Or, say, another Avenger.