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"intellectually narrow comp sci". Yes. YES. I've been wrestling with this since forever. Tried what I could ("post-autistic IT"), to no avail.
The problem, as I see it from the inside, is that the quasi-autistic traits enabled and promoted by a narrow view of programming experience are seen as an asset by industry, rather than a dangerous work-related disorder to be fought.
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@dataKnightmare
Please stop using autistic as a slur. Intellectually narrow would have done the job just fine. In any case, the social issues with computing are mainly because of capitalism, not autism. And capitalism is dominated by allistics and sociopaths, not autists.

DataKnightmare @dataKnightmare

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Hi. It was not meant as a slur, surely not used as one. Quasi-autistic is an accurate description of *one* skill of a good programmer, unfortunately the most capitalistically exploitable and exploited. one Big Four years ago had a program to bring people with Asperger's into programming. But the spectrum side of people on the spectrum is very valuable and valued, as are the sociopathic traits of those who present them.

DataKnightmare @dataKnightmare

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Rather than building an inclusive environment, spectrum people are selectively exploited.

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Soni L. @SoniEx2@cybre.space

@dataKnightmare @gcupc I'm not sure what you're saying (could you rephrase?) but it seems that you're saying autistic ppl are bad/a disorder?

DataKnightmare @dataKnightmare

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Hi. Short: No, not saying that, of course.
Medium: autism is not *one* thing, it's a spectrum, and some points on the spectrum are currently viewed as disorders. I am not speaking of the clinical conditions, but of some surface behaviours that are similar.
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DataKnightmare @dataKnightmare

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What I am very tortuously trying to say is that being a nerd, a person with Asperger's, or other economically viable spectrum conditions, has been first exploited (look, they work so hard, need so little and never quibble!) and then gentrified

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DataKnightmare @dataKnightmare

@SoniEx2
Gentrified as in: workplace assholes having their way as long as they play "the Aspie", because Aspie is the new cool. Meanwhile, no one giving a fuck to accommodate different cognitive styles in the workplace.
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