Editing Groucho Marx (section)

=== Social Behavior and Selective Attachment ===
Despite his fame, Groucho maintained '''a narrow social world'''. He had multiple marriages and many acquaintances but few deep emotional connections. His children described him as “emotionally absent,” “impossible to read,” and “never close.”

He was deeply uncomfortable with spontaneous emotional demands. His friendships were often '''transactional, professional, or hierarchically defined'''. He did not engage in shared emotional reflection, and when pressed, he would retreat into silence or sarcasm.

These are hallmark traits of '''selective sociality in autism''', where the individual maintains relationships within '''narrow, role-based constraints''', but avoids reciprocal emotional vulnerability.
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