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Re:Modern decor may be straining people's brains by austin-cheney on Sunday July 12, 2026 @05:07AM (#48879567)
The noise on the walls is comforting to people on the autism spectrum, provided it’s bound by inferred structures. You have to also understand that elementary school education is almost universally female, much more so programming is male dominated. Like software, elementary school education is also a pool for adults on the autism spectrum substantially higher than general population average.
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Re:Modern decor may be straining people's brains by david_allison on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:26AM (#48879959)
> Like software, elementary school education is also a pool for adults on the autism spectrum substantially higher than general population average.

Interesting! Do you have a source for this?

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Re:Modern decor may be straining people's brains by wafflemaker on Sunday July 12, 2026 @06:50AM (#48880064)
Can you write more thoughts or describe some situations?
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Re:Modern decor may be straining people's brains by austin-cheney on Sunday July 12, 2026 @07:00AM (#48880118)
I am not sure what you are asking for.
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Re:Modern decor may be straining people's brains by boringg on Sunday July 12, 2026 @07:56AM (#48880435)
I think they are asking you to expand. It seems that your comment was short and not full of specific examples to draw from.
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Re:Modern decor may be straining people's brains by wafflemaker on Sunday July 12, 2026 @08:30AM (#48880648)
My wife is working in preschool and wanted to have some examples to discuss with her. I know plenty of those for overrepresentation of AuDHD spectrum in IT (especially males), but don't know any for schools. Especially since women are often not that obvious.
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Re:Modern decor may be straining people's brains by austin-cheney on Sunday July 12, 2026 @11:26PM (#48887511)
I don't have statistics. My wife works in elementary special education. Previously to her current assignment to a classroom with assigned students she worked across the entirely of a large school system as adviser.
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Re:Modern decor may be straining people's brains by mghackerlady on Monday July 13, 2026 @10:03AM (#48892895)
Anecdotal, but my cousin has ADHD (not the same, but there seems to be significant overlap) and is working on becoming an elementary school teacher
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