Re:Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for...
by dpark on Tuesday January 23, 2018 @10:40AM
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Again you avoid the actual conversation in favor of tangents. No one is advocating for the term “Aspie” or saying you used it. No one is saying that no one in IT has autism. No one is censoring you. And no one is misrepresenting you by making direct quotations from your own post.
You directly accuse someone else of racism for saying that Finnish culture is blunt. But you happily attribute bluntness in IT to autism. I cannot believe you are this lacking in introspection and self-criticism.
Furthermore, you put words in my mouth, and you paraphrase me with words I didn't use and would avoid. I would not describe Torvalds as a programmer, and I would carefully avoid the word "aspie" or "asperger" ever since I learned they're superseded (since my diagnosis, Sept 2017). Because THAT word is stereotypical whereas the spectrum is far more broad. There is no shame in being autistic/ASD/part of spectrum either. I certainly don't feel ashamed about it (I'm not proud about it either btw).
I have no interest in discussing this further with you because I have no interest in getting convinced by you that autistics aren't part of IT while I am getting signals that people within the spectrum are indeed overly represented in certain professions, including IT. But that wasn't my point because if I wanted to draw a caricature of an autist in IT I got far better examples available.
Go spend your time convincing someone else instead, and perhaps consider a worthwhile subject instead of nitpicking on a conclusion you drew and aren't refuting with data either.
TL;DR:
> If you don't believe it, then don't say it, because it perpetuates this unhealthy viewpoint.
You won't censor me. Au revoir.