Bill Gates spent a year trying to test Rosie O'Donnell for autism

According to O’Donnell, this was mostly due to her ability to recite lyrics and commercials from her childhood, which is a symptom of neurodivergence. “You know the Primatene Mist commercial?” O’Donnell says. “Most people don’t know that because there’s no song, and it was on in the ’60s and ’70s, and ‘in the lungs Primatene helps open clogged breathing tubes, relaxes bronchial spasm, restores free breathing as fast as 15 seconds. Primatene Mist to help keep breathing freely for hours. Primatene tablets are the one most widely prescribed by doctors. There’s no reason that I have that stuck in my head.” O’Donnell is the mother of a child on the spectrum, so she does know a thing or two about the subject and she doesn’t seem offended by Gates’ request. Instead, she says, her child “taught me patience and introspection and to be more introspective about my own stuff going on.”