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Thank you for your candid comment. It is frustrating to engage via comments and I have learned something from your comments. All labels including "autistic" ar

Thank you for your candid comment. It is frustrating to engage via comments and I have learned something from your comments. All labels including "autistic" are usually very misunderstood - often even amongst people with the same label. Hopefully commenters here are more understanding - given that if you work in the software field you very often deal with people with mild traits of autism. All the best.

ModernMech 2y ago
Yeah I think people who are autistic gravitate toward it. It's a very happy coincidence that so many things about computers attract autistic minds. It's a skill that's valuable enough and specialized enough that autistic idiosyncrasies are tolerated to a greater degree than in other fields. I know deep in my heart if my special interest were birdhouses or windchimes, I would not be in the privileged position I am today. I also know that if my skin were not white, my gender were not male, and my orientation not straight / cis I would not have the same life experience as I did, which all things considered has turned out okay (others called my inability to live a typical life an objectively negative outcome, but I disagree!). Many of my friends are POC or trans or gay and they face challenges I do not on top of their autism. I don't think I would be nearly as "high functioning" as I am if I weren't conventionally attractive and part of a majority race/ethnic group in my country. Thanks for listening and learning something; I'm glad my attempt at spreading awareness has worked on at least one person!