In the early days of IT there was the concept that the best developers were strange, hard to get along with prima Donna’s.
The thing that links them is you have someone who ostensibly creates so much value everyone else is supposed to live with their demands.
It can be minor things. We had a trader in an firm I worked for who made the company hire a car to take him to work each morning. Certainly not a strange thing but it wasn't exactly something the couldn't pay for himself, nor a benefit that everyone enjoyed.
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It led to being strange cool in the "in-group" which led to perfectly socially aware people acting strange where it would them cool points.
I am not complaining here, I enjoyed it back then. Only later I realized what went on and how much of the "strage" were actually "very high social skill being used".