Here’s a comment from reader Erica:

I look at Hunter’s comment in two ways: 1. he is a jerk; or 2. he is
in fact someone on the autism spectrum, who suffers from social
anxiety or something akin, and was caught out. In my limited
experience of interviewing persons on the autism spectrum, I was
bowled over by the articulateness of one young man. His vocabulary
itself was astounding – and, also, his readiness to self-diagnose (the
interview was about a medical/psychiatric subject). He also
characterised people he knew, and family members, in medical terms –
whether this was appropriate or not, is another matter. I’m inclined
to give Hunter the benefit of the doubt: words describing feelings,
even the verb ‘to suffer’ can evidently be tricky for those who have
difficulty identifying their own feelings by name. If he were
attempting to backpedal his remarks because he was a bit scared by the
response he’d gotten, I can see he might have overdone it. He may well
also know that ‘autism’ remains in the latest DSM (2013) as a
bona-fide pathology. Asperger’s, as a ‘separate’ disorder, has been
lumped in with the definition of ‘autism spectrum’ disorders.

I think you must be right.

He has/had 3, two as “public figure” one as “community organization,” which is/was the one with all the political content.