Or it stuck out less, because so much more of life was toiling at the farm (or the factory floor) doing a routine.<p>Thus the &quot;odd fellow&quot; out on that remote farm may well have fallen into what today goes for mild end Autism, or Aspergers, but functioned because the farm life was mostly self sufficient.<p>Sometimes i wonder how many of the old west mountain men were on the mild end, and opted for a life away from society.