It's almost as if autism is a spectrum...

Asperger is nothing like Forrest Gump or the Rainman characters, BTW.

It is like Holden Caulfield or Travis the Taxi Driver, or the Deer Hunter, or Rocky the Bum.

Or like the people who are unable to have jobs, even programming ones, despite being very skilled at it, because their aspergers causes them so many problems that they cannot work in an environment with other people or to deadlines, so, instead they are stuck unemployed, living at home, and terrified about what happens when their parents die and how they will cope, while people make fun of them for being basement dwellers.

Hell is other people. And yes, it is difficult to hold a programmer job in a circus, among self-obsessed, cosplaying sophisticated individualty, bearded and tattooed clowns.

But there are many niches for those who can't stand narcissistic cosplaying mediocrity in charge - craftsmanship of any kind, not necessarily digital. Making good sandwiches will do.

One could be a self-employed, paid open source contributor, a freelancer, a subcontractor, etc. Yes, one probably will never "succeed" in one of valleys sweatshops, but there are always other, less traveled pathways..

Again, Igor Sysoev, who have bootstrapped the project alone, according to his tastes and preferences, and then went back into shadow, leaving all the singing and dancing to those who liked it, is a classic example.

There is also Pirsig's book, Atlas, and a few other good ones.

> It is like Holden Caulfield or Travis the Taxi Driver

> actually good to have

Something doesn't add up.

Even being a fictional character Holder Caulfield seems to be way smarter and remarkably clear thinking fellow compared to modern cosplaying hipsters.

Holden Caulfield is principally a narcissist.

Who said so? What are the evidences?

Not his always looking at the mirror roommate? Not all these silly girls? Not the snobs at clubs?

Come on.

"Who said so?" was my HS junior English teacher. It's that stunted, bleak sort of narcissism that undergirds all misanthropy.

Quite a few of us manage to function just fine, actually, thanks. Please don't talk about us like we're not here.