yea reverse discrimination, there is way too much of that in this world!!
**drooling in sarcasm**
I read last year that some company in the UK was advertising specifically for aspie computer engineers, and NT job seekers complained that this was unfair reverse discrimination. I don't know what company it was, though. Did anyone else see that story?
I suppose it could happen, a while ago there was some publicity for AS as being something common to many good engineers and technical people, someone might have decided it might help to search out people with that parrticular attribute just to see if it works. Who knows what might happen.
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incidentally, I read only just recently that the guy who invented BitTorrent is an Aspie, and BitTorrent is one of the most successful p2p downloaders out there! I think eventually someone is bound to pick up on the fact that Aspies make excellent techies.
I'm not really fond with that stereotype.
I'm autistic and I'm very bad with computers (although I'm half-decent at making games with ZZT).
That stereotype dopesn't necessarily attach to computers, any of a number of technical skills could be boosted. Mechanical engineering, physics, higher mathematics, any of these might come easier to an Aspie.
Does anyone else out there have an unusual aptitiude for non-computer related technical skills?
course it does :roll:
Quack! Quack!
That stereotype dopesn't necessarily attach to computers, any of a number of technical skills could be boosted. Mechanical engineering, physics, higher mathematics, any of these might come easier to an Aspie.
Does anyone else out there have an unusual aptitiude for non-computer related technical skills?
Nope.
I used to be brilliant at maths when I was young, but that skill seems to have regressed, now I can't even do division without a calculator, although my IQ's still supposed to be in the top 2%. My spatial awareness is very good though, whatever the proper word for that is.
Hmmm... I was thinking more along the lines of an enhanced ability to do certain types of tasks, invovling very technical skills, any of which (or none) might manifest. Skills like those I mentioned before, just seem intuitive to me, does anyone else know what I mean? I occasionally fix things around the house, and it just feels right. I never even had to be shown how to use a soldering iron. It just feels natural.
I seem to have a hunch for aerodynamics,
Except the very basics i tought myself to RC an airplane.
I like gliding the most, I just love to utilize a thermal together with
birds of prey, they are the real masters.
I generally strive for energy efficiency, but when i have plenty
of it, i enjoy aerobatics alot as well.
When the weather is very good, i like to do this;
First i get the glider so high i can barely see it (too high, according to most of the few people i know), then waste that by aerobatics or a dive, then start over again, etc..
I also like building small freeflight hand launch gliders from balsa,
and squeeze out performance. they still get better and better.
But i also read lots of lecture about aerodynamics, my sister once asked me why i "punish" myself by reading so much.
Ah.. yes do that almost daily, I once had a job once at a computer
company who imports stuff and supplies stores and such,
it had was a large hall for storage with a balcony at one of the walls,
which actually was the concrete top of the division "technical service",
where i was stationed.
during lunch brake, when it was bad weather(so i couldn't go to a quiet park nearby), I often spent my lunchbreak up there (alone) building and testing paper and cardboard airplans. Ideal.
the best thing about doig that kind of thing, Mayaku, is the way the materials you are working with feel like extensions of your body (or at least mine do). Its just so darn FUN!!
What do you think of Noughts and Crosses (Tic Tac Toe)? When I was twelve I got interested the simplicity of the game and realised what a futile game it was. NTs must have invented it, because it so pathetically simple, that if you know how to play, the most intelligent computer in the world couldn't beat you. Two people who know how to play tic tac toe will get nothing but ties for eternity. Try winning a game of tic tac toe against a computer. You can't. I found that out after I had worked out the method by which you couldn't lose. No computer could beat me! But I could beat no computer. There's my logic skills. If only I had a brain to do the same with chess.
Good god, I do go funny at these hours.
Politics/current affairs which is my "strength" definetly does not thank goodness!. I'm also good with flags and more abstract stuff. With Maths I managed to get a C grade for GCSE and did not do it for A level
I suspect that it would have to involve raised levels at specific phases of development, from the womb through adolescence and beyond.