Editing Sigmund Freud (section)

== Early Life and Education ==
Freud was born to Jewish parents in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. From an early age, he exhibited what Hans Asperger termed '''“autistic intelligence”'''—a focused, literal, and hyper-systemized approach to knowledge. He had a '''piercing gaze'''and was noted for his inability to read non-verbal social cues. Unlike neurotypical children, he had very '''limited reciprocal relationships''', avoided emotional expression, and preferred solitary intellectual pursuits.

He was also an '''intensely verbal child''', with a love of language and wordplay—common in Asperger profiles. But unlike socially intuitive children, Freud did not use language to connect. He used it to control. He displayed early signs of what I later termed the '''“autistic superego”''': a harsh internal authority driven by inflexible moral codes and binary logic.
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