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That inference comes from a long pattern of speech and behaviour made in public. Far from being private or personal information, it's an elephant in the room.

It's necessary to be able to critique leaders. Discussing a person's mind with regard to their fitness for leadership is not the same as making a personal attack at somebody's mental health.

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>>It's necessary to be able to critique leaders.

There's one particular leader who comes to mind... I know many people would have no problem publicly asserting that this leader clearly has some sort of mental/cognitive/emotional problems.

It's ironic that bad faith accusations of insanity against people with different opinions are generally more tolerated than good faith assertions of mental issues impeding those who we are sympathetic to.

Yes, ironic indeed. That said, I'll admit that the author might have word-smithed the post a little bit. For example, unless it's publicly known that he has Aspergers, the author probably should have avoided being so specific. Instead of saying that he has mental issues, they could have said "years of public behavior would indicate that he very well may have mental issues". Maybe that would have struck many readers as more "good-faith" criticism.

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