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Not to nit-pick, but exceptionally tall people often have spine issues, and in sports, career-ending foot injuries are common in basketball. https://en.wikiped

Not to nit-pick, but exceptionally tall people often have spine issues, and in sports, career-ending foot injuries are common in basketball. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Ming https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yao_Ming Also disable sound and search for "Kevin Durant injury: A look at the NBA's history with foot injuries" As well, some of the "tall genes" are associated with connective tissue and other health problems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfan_syndrome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marfan_syndrome I'm average height for the West, but when I'm in Asia, I often hit my head on gates, taxi doorways, etc. I imagine that would also happen for 7 footers in the West.

konjin 6y ago
Yes, that was the point I was making. It seems that it flew over peoples heads. Being on the spectrum without learning how to work around neurotypicals is the issue, the same way that being 7 foot tall without the physical modifications needed to support that body is also an issue. I am very much on the spectrum but have developed a large number of coping strategies [0]. Had I been diagnosed and treated as a child I would have never had the ability to become anywhere near as successful and fulfilled as I am today. Instead I would have been drugged into being an office drone and probably been looking at suicide about now. [0] One of the odder ones that no one neurotypical understands is an algebra of social relations I use to model office politics. It lets me evaluate the social graph analytically several jumps further than any person can keep in their head.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  > It lets me evaluate the social graph analytically That's pretty far out there, dude. I just don't bother, which is probably why I receive hundreds of downvotes per month and don't care. :)

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Not to nit-pick, but exceptionally tall people often have spine issues, and in sports, career-ending foot injuries are common in basketball. https://en.wikiped

by redis_mlc 6y ago

konjin 6y ago
Yes, that was the point I was making. It seems that it flew over peoples heads. Being on the spectrum without learning how to work around neurotypicals is the issue, the same way that being 7 foot tall without the physical modifications needed to support that body is also an issue. I am very much on the spectrum but have developed a large number of coping strategies [0]. Had I been diagnosed and treated as a child I would have never had the ability to become anywhere near as successful and fulfilled as I am today. Instead I would have been drugged into being an office drone and probably been looking at suicide about now. [0] One of the odder ones that no one neurotypical understands is an algebra of social relations I use to model office politics. It lets me evaluate the social graph analytically several jumps further than any person can keep in their head.
- redis_mlc 6y ago
  > It lets me evaluate the social graph analytically That's pretty far out there, dude. I just don't bother, which is probably why I receive hundreds of downvotes per month and don't care. :)