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I've always been against this scarlet letter mentality that seems pervasive. I've also been vocally against RMS's particular brand of outreach as being incredi
by jedimastert 6y ago
I've always been against this scarlet letter mentality that seems pervasive.
I've also been vocally against RMS's particular brand of outreach as being incredibly alienating of the people whose opinions he actually needs to address. Admittedly, if he does have autism there's a ton of things that start to make sense, speaking from my own experiences with and around it, but I can't actually find a reference to any confirmed diagnosis from him. He's said he "suspects" as such, and I might as well, but it doesn't really help as neither of us are trained professionals. That being said, from my experience with autistic folks and what I know about him, it's not super surprising that he wouldn't get himself actually diagnosed or checked.
- unanswered 6y agoWould his getting a diagnosis and publicly sharing that private medical information make you start treating him as an actual human being, or nah?
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- jedimastert 6y agoI would disagree with his rhetorical stylings whether or not he had autism, and probably wouldn't change much in the way of how I disagreed or really talked about him. > publicly sharing that private medical information Are we gonna side-step the fact that he's publicly stated in several interviews that he suspects that he's on the spectrum, or nah? > make you start treating him as an actual human being In what way have I not?
- unanswered 6y ago> In what way have I not? Publicly speculating about medical diagnoses, for one thing.
- jedimastert 6y agoI'm not speculating about medical diagnosis, I'm speculating on public statements from the man himself.
- pseudalopex 6y agoHe called himself borderline autistic in 2000 but said it was an exaggeration in 2008.[1] [1] https://www.computerworld.com/article/2551458/asperger-s-oxymoron.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/2551458/asperger-s-oxy...