Creative Differences

I can see how Edgar Allan Poe can come off as disturbing from his work but, I also see how people can say he's just a normal person with a creative output. I don't think that judging him through his work is a very fair thing to do. When he was alive, Poe didn't really have many friends to talk to. So, no one could have actually been close enough to him to know what kind of person he was. Make guesses about a stranger's personality isn't fair to the person you're assuming they are. It's like if someone is wearing a really depressing shirt, you can't just assume that they have issues. Thats stereotyping and it isn't nice to other people.