Ah, ok. Glad you wrote this. Explains a lot. I made assumptions based off your brief description and I was wrong. Yeah, really glad you said this. Definitely if it's more a sort of lack of ability to be tactful in communication, then he could be quite responsive to you emailing him and explaining better why you didn't get to ask the questions you really wanted to ask. Some people, even very bright people, need certain things spelled out if they're not picking up on cues.