He believed that autism and autistic traits are common and always have been, seeing aspects of this continuum in familiar archetypes from pop culture like the socially awkward scientist and the absent-minded professor.
El cría que o autismo  e os trazos autistas son habituais e que sempre o foran, xa que temos mostras deste contínuum en arquetipos comúns da cultura popular, como o científico torpe na vida social, ou o profesor distraído.