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Autistic MtF programmers is something that happens enough to be a trope, joke or meme.
by novok 6y ago
Autistic MtF programmers is something that happens enough to be a trope, joke or meme.
- orthoxerox 6y agoThis usually doesn't fix their issues beyond dysphoria, though.
- novok 6y agoSomewhere in the comments here, one of them said "estrogen fixed my social autism". That is really surprising.
- dgellow 6y agoWhat is an MtF programmer? I read it as Microsoft programmer but that doesn't really make that much sense in the context.
- cpach 6y agoMtF = Male to Female
- roflc0ptic 6y agoNo citation in this, but being trans correlates with being autistic
- owl57 6y agoWould seem logical. I was alien enough to boys to land at the "girls table" in school canteen when I was 11. Pieces of experience like this could probably help to start considering the possibility.
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoThis is an extremely dangerous and absolutely insane line of reasoning that is causing incredible harm to young people. You don’t have gender dysphoria because you hung out with girls as an 11 year old.
- owl57 6y agoNo. I actually don't know a real thing about gender dysphoria. I just presumed that if you look square and feel round, you are more likely to recognize and embrace your roundness if your other traits make society less consistent in squeezing you into square holes.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoThis is an awful way to talk to people about their own experiences.
- krageon 6y agoIt comes from a reasonable place: It shouldn't be generalised. You may have issues with specific things that were said (or how they were said), but that isn't clear from your response. Perhaps you could add that, so the author can learn.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoI take issue with every part of it. The claim that the other person’s experience is dangerous, that it’s insane, that it’s harming children, and that they didn’t experience it.
- krageon 6y agoYou didn't really engage with what I said at all, except at the most superficial level. It's really not a very nice way to have a conversation, especially given that regardless of whether or not I agree I was absolutely trying to help you.
- eyelidlessness 6y agoI’m sorry but I’m not sure I understand what you’re trying to get from me here. You said: > You may have issues with specific things that were said (or how they were said), but that isn't clear from your response. Perhaps you could add that, so the author can learn. I addressed those specifics, as far as I can tell all of the specifics of substance. I was engaging your suggestion in good faith. I did take and accept it as helpful. I’m open to the possibility there’s some nuance I’m missing?
- lawnchair_larry 6y agoThe truth is more tragic. Being autistic correlates with being falsely convinced that your problem is that you’re trans. https://nationalpost.com/health/are-autistic-children-more-likely-to-believe-theyre-transgender-controversial-toronto-expert-backs-link https://nationalpost.com/health/are-autistic-children-more-l...
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- dralley 6y agoAlso, frankly, many of them happen to be bloody brilliant, seemingly much moreso than average.
- reycharles 6y agoWhy did you make this comment?