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The definition of dumb is very elastic.
There is one summer student who came to work at my software company. He was in a very specialized and elite program at a top-flight Canadian university. Both his parents were professors at this university.
One day he came to our boss, and said that his family always went to Europe for 2 weeks in the summer, and he needed time off. My boss explained that he had been hired because we wanted to do a special project during the summer, and it would be very difficult to not have him on the team for a significant part of it.
My boss asked the student when the vacation was going to start. The student replied, "tomorrow".
At first, my boss was angry, but then realized that the student actually had no understanding that this was an unusual and onerous request. That's about the time I started learning about autism (and later realized that I was somewhere on the spectrum as well, just not as far along it).