4 ms·
It's not even an issue of "mental resilience". Pair programming, like any other close human interaction, is strongly weighted toward the most aggressive or ins
by blunte 7y ago
It's not even an issue of "mental resilience". Pair programming, like any other close human interaction, is strongly weighted toward the most aggressive or insensitive (or autistic) personality.
And in the tech world, it's very easy to encounter people more weighted toward the autistic end of the spectrum. Pair one of those with one of the HSP people, and you have a really shitty combination. The HSP will expend most of their energy appeasing and compensating for the needs of the autist. The autist will feel frustrated, and the HSP will feel fully exhuasted.
- jacques_chester 7y agoI've done fulltime pair programming with dozens of people and not found this to be the case. Pairing is a skill. Practiced regularly it becomes easier and smoother, like any other skill.
- boojums 7y agoWould you mind expanding HSP? An online search seems to indicate Highly Sensitive Person which would fit based on context?
- chownie 7y agoJust a heads up, HSP is often comorbid with autism as are plenty of other atypical sensory processing manifestations.
- blunte 7y agoEvery label probably has a range of details which can describe it, but in my experience autistic people are marked by their relative inability to understand social cues and other non-verbal (and even verbal) indications of emotion. Highly sensitive people, however, seem to be given to feeling the emotions of others without even the necessity of verbal indications. In my experience, they are opposite ends of some spectrum. Perhaps "normal" people fall rather in the middle.
- tsss 7y agoI sure am glad I never have to do pair programming with someone like you.