tech­ni­cal­ly ocd is a brain dis­or­der...­com­mon­ly falls un­der the Autism Spec­trum Dis­or­der um­brel­la.....I have a son with Autism...there are a mil­lion types of is­sues it en­com­pass­es.

I get chills ev­ery­time I see footage of Howard!

Howard Hugh­es was NOT autis­tic. Hugh­es suf­fered from a men­tal ill­ness called Ob­ses­sive Com­pul­sive Dis­or­der or OCD. An ill­ness which went un­di­ag­nosed. This in­ten­si­fied through the con­tin­ued use of pain killers to which he be­came ad­dict­ed.

he was'nt ec­cen­tric he was autis­tic if you don't be­lieve me look it up