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Wow, I used to work with someone who ticked every one of those boxes. Incredibly knowledgeable and spent all of their free time reading spec documents and progr
by ndnxhs 8y ago
Wow, I used to work with someone who ticked every one of those boxes. Incredibly knowledgeable and spent all of their free time reading spec documents and programming. Unfortunately they could be emotionally unstable at times which was had to work around.
- chess93 8y agoIts not really relevant but the list seems to not actually describe Asbergers but some other collection of symptoms that results from being socially deprived. (However, this probably matches up with popular conception of Asbergers individuals.) I think the "key" is finding people who deal with their problems by diving deep in to technical tasks and becoming absorbed in minutiae. An unnaturally small interest set combined with a lack of interest in people.
- newnewpdro 8y agoAre you deliberately misspelling Asperger's in the South Park vernacular [1] to be offensive or something, or is it just a mistake? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ass_Burgers https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ass_Burgers
- matt-snider 8y agoWouldn't they have then spelled it as you've written it and not halfway between? Seems to be a typo to me
- newnewpdro 8y agoIt's probably a mistake, but South Park has rendered that misspelling/mispronunciation into somewhat of a pejorative.
- chess93 8y agoSorry I was up all night and didn't even consider that I was spelling it wrong. My track pad is broken and so I can't right click to spell check. (I am waiting to start my new job to get a new laptop.)
- chess93 8y ago:%s/Asbergers/Aspergers/g
- loriverkutya 8y agoPlease don’t call autistic people as “they”, we are human and please remember if you met one autistic person, you met only one autistic person. We are as different as neurotypical persons are different.
- rimliu 8y agoUhm. I usually call other humans “they”. How else I am supposed to call them?
- loriverkutya 8y agoSorry I was not clear, please do not refer autistic people as “group”, autism is a spectrum and each autistic individual can be very different. Not all of us are emotionally unstable. This kind of generalisation is pretty harmful.
- ndnxhs 8y agoSeems to be a miscommunication. I use they as a gender neutral way of referring to individuals as the English language doesn't offer a better alternative.
- buttcoinslol 8y agoAgain, the OP was not using a collective noun to refer to autistic people as a group, their post was about a single individual with autism.
- SquareWheel 8y agoThey (ndnshs) seem to just be referring to a single person here. Not a group.
- ndnxhs 8y agoI refer to everyone as they. I don't see why you have a problem with this. My comment doesn't need to contain details of gender.
- DanBC 8y ago