In his 2025 memoir 'Source Code: My Beginnings,' Bill Gates wrote that 'if I were growing up today, I probably would be diagnosed on the autism spectrum.' Reflecting on a childhood in which his parents 'struggled with their complicated son,' Gates noted that neurodivergence was poorly understood at the time and the term itself would not be coined until the 1990s. The candid disclosure — which he chose to address explicitly in the book's epilogue — was widely covered as a notable public reflection on neurodiversity by one of the world's most recognizable figures.