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One of my pet peeves is articles that idolize autism like this. Most people with autism are severely developmentally delayed. Autistic savants that you often
by jeff18 17y ago
One of my pet peeves is articles that idolize autism like this. Most people with autism are severely developmentally delayed. Autistic savants that you often hear about in the media are extremely rare.
"As a general view, they have excellent memory and strong attention to detail. They are persistent and good at following structures and routines."
Bullshit. Anyone who actually works with autistic people would cringe at that line.
It's like making an unqualified statement "amputees are the best runners" because a small handful use those awesome prosthetics to run super fast.
- Devilboy 17y agoWell obviously he's not hiring people at the extreme end of the autism spectrum - and he has actual data to back up his statements so I don't see why you should criticize him by taking one or two statements out of context like that.
- jeff18 17y agoI didn't take it out of context. The entire article puts autism on a pedestal.
- biohacker42 17y agoArticles like this is as good as it gets from Wired. To be fair, that's not worse then you'd get from almost any other publication. But crap is still crap. And Wired is kinda crappy even when it comes to their alleged core competency - tech. And it is total crap on any other subject. Yet we keep seeing Wired articles ever higher on HN, ever more often. At least for now the comments rebuking them are good.