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I read the whole article before posting my comment (which is currently top voted, at least it looks like that to me, so maybe that's what you're objecting to).

I read the whole article before posting my comment (which is currently top voted, at least it looks like that to me, so maybe that's what you're objecting to). It's quite possible I've missed something, or a lot of things, but your comment isn't helpful determining that... You just said to read the whole thing again. Ok, but what specifically have I got wrong?

junon 5y ago
What gave you the impression I was directly referring to your comment?
- quietbritishjim 5y ago
  Well, nothing in your comment gave me the impression you were referring to anything in particular. But I was honestly trying to understand what your point was. Really, it just comes across as unspecific rant, so I think I was being pretty generous.
  - junon 5y ago
    What in my comment is "unspecific"? Most of the comments here are speculating about the author's mental state, claiming they must have self-diagnosed this issue (which isn't true), or that they just need to find another language to write apps in (missing the point they were an active contributor to the spec and cared deeply about this language). Very few of them are actually addressing the content of the article itself, instead dismissing the author as either insignificant to the cause or just being whiney, etc. I have quite a few comments here pointing that out to people. If you didn't get much worth out of my comment, or if it was obvious, perhaps you weren't the intended reader.
Pieman103021 5y ago
Not OP, but I can tell you why your comment seemed armchair-psychologist-y to me. The issue is saying "it doesn't seem like her problem is actually X, it seems like it's Y." You read a short article written by someone who, based on the tone and explanation up top, was not in the best frame of mind. The bigger issue with your comment from my perspective though is that you said "But it seems to me that they're still some way off from understanding their condition", which to my ears is just demeaning. Someone posts an article about leaving a community, with a lead in explaining their state of mind as of writing it, and your response comes down to "sounds like you don't understand your condition you were recently diagnosed with". Personality disorders are hard, they don't go away and they can take years to get a handle on. When the top response to your article where you mention your disorder is someone saying you don't understand it, it becomes that much harder.

junon 5y ago

What gave you the impression I was directly referring to your comment?

quietbritishjim 5y ago
Well, nothing in your comment gave me the impression you were referring to anything in particular. But I was honestly trying to understand what your point was. Really, it just comes across as unspecific rant, so I think I was being pretty generous.
- junon 5y ago
  What in my comment is "unspecific"? Most of the comments here are speculating about the author's mental state, claiming they must have self-diagnosed this issue (which isn't true), or that they just need to find another language to write apps in (missing the point they were an active contributor to the spec and cared deeply about this language). Very few of them are actually addressing the content of the article itself, instead dismissing the author as either insignificant to the cause or just being whiney, etc. I have quite a few comments here pointing that out to people. If you didn't get much worth out of my comment, or if it was obvious, perhaps you weren't the intended reader.

Pieman103021 5y ago

Not OP, but I can tell you why your comment seemed armchair-psychologist-y to me. The issue is saying "it doesn't seem like her problem is actually X, it seems like it's Y." You read a short article written by someone who, based on the tone and explanation up top, was not in the best frame of mind. The bigger issue with your comment from my perspective though is that you said "But it seems to me that they're still some way off from understanding their condition", which to my ears is just demeaning. Someone posts an article about leaving a community, with a lead in explaining their state of mind as of writing it, and your response comes down to "sounds like you don't understand your condition you were recently diagnosed with". Personality disorders are hard, they don't go away and they can take years to get a handle on. When the top response to your article where you mention your disorder is someone saying you don't understand it, it becomes that much harder.