This was stated by the founder of Tesla and SpaceX on the program “Saturday Night Live” (SNL). He also referred again to the cryptocurrency dogecoin.
Tesla founder Elon Musk, one of the richest men in the world, revealed that he has Asperger’s syndrome on the American prime-time show “Saturday Night Live” (SNL) on Saturday night.
Musk, a rare type of guest host on SNL, said in his opening monologue that he was the show’s first host with this syndrome “or at least the first to admit it.” It is an autism spectrum disorder that causes difficulties in the development of social skills and a range of repetitive behavior and interests.
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In the program, the businessman made fun of himself for his monotonous tone of voice, his fondness for causing a stir on social networks, his notorious moment in which he participated in a podcast while smoking marijuana and even for the name of his son, called X Æ A-12 and pronounced like a “cat pounding on a keyboard”.
“Look, I know sometimes I say or post strange things, but it’s just how my brain works. To anyone who has offended, I just want to say: I have reinvented electric cars and I am sending people to Mars in a rocket , did you think I was going to be a normal and relaxed guy? “, He added.
Musk’s appearance on the show had raised expectations for being a public figure, but also for his defense of cryptocurrencies and especially of the controversial dogecoin, about which he stated that it will be “the future of currencies”, that its value will to go “to the moon”, but that nevertheless is a “scam”.
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With this, for the second time this week, Musk changed the price of the currency, which fell to 49 cents during the broadcast of the show, when shortly before it was at 74 cents, according to CoinDesk.
In addition, on the occasion of Mother’s Day in the US, which is celebrated this Sunday, the presenter also invited his mother, former model Maye Musk, who said about her gift: “I hope it is not dogecoin”, at the that he responded sarcastically: “Yes, it is.”
See the businessman’s monologue here:
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