Or it stuck out less, because so much more of life was toiling at the farm (or the factory floor) doing a routine.

Thus the "odd fellow" out on that remote farm may well have fallen into what today goes for mild end Autism, or Aspergers, but functioned because the farm life was mostly self sufficient.

Sometimes i wonder how many of the old west mountain men were on the mild end, and opted for a life away from society.