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🙋 ASD person here.
Some of the traits definitely do help at your job.
But leadership and interpersonal skills are definitely not one of those.
All in all, having been CTO, I guess the key is just being transparent about it with your colleagues, since we tend to be way more transparent than we think (via body language, etc) when interacting with neurotypical people.
If they know beforehand, they won't be freaked out by some of your otherwise freaky reactions. -
@cho-uc
Ability to focus on something to the point of straight forgetting everything else.
Better retention rate and learning speed.
Ability to think differently from neurotypical people, often coming up with creative solutions.
Heightened attention to detail, avoiding most common mistakes. -
@CoreFusionX
Those traits are valid but not constrained to only autistic people (not all autistic people have those traits) -
@CoreFusionX
> Ability to focus on something to the point of straight forgetting everything else [like meetings or eating or sleeping] [except sometimes might focus on something that tickles my dopamine receptors in the right way, but is not important at all or doesn't have anything to do with work or is really just distracting myself to avoid feeling bad about not doing THE THING, or sometimes not being able to concentrate at all on under-stimulating tasks].
ADHD entered the chat. -
@cho-uc
Of course they are not exclusive to ASD, not all of them have the traits.
That's why it's called a spectrum.
OMG I have no clue why they're leaving
- Every asshole manager ever
Yes Linus Torvalds is an asshole and the world is better because of it.
In short Linus's acid takes on code q...
1. Say something about autistic traits in front of your boss. Mention many developers benefit from those traits in their engineering work.
2. Boss rejects this audibly saying he is not in fact autistic.
3. Pretend to ignore social cues when interacting near boss. Such as interrupting conversations impolitely. Boss ignores this and doesn't mention this.
4. Later hear boss saying he might have some autistic traits that helps him in his work (he is software developer and electrical engineer, and is very good at this).
5. Profit from being an asshole or autistic? Am I ignoring cues because I just don't give a fuck anymore?
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