I read the first few paragraphs, got bored, read a bit from the middle, skipped to the end. The conclusion didn't really work for me.
The introduction read to me like that of a spoof; later on it looked like it was probably serious, and then at the end it was of course spoof again.
I was particularly at a loss to understand why allism, apparently defined as `the inability to independently experience emotions,' should have any bearing on whether one can use a computer.
I was particularly at a loss to understand why allism, apparently defined as `the inability to independently experience emotions,' should have any bearing on whether one can use a computer.
It's that "the more 'autistic' you are, the better you are as a geek" fallacy yet again. Some circles see social disfunction as a cause for celebration. If these people were seriously autistic, they wouldn't give a shit about what other people think about them (or indeed understand that other people could think about them). Instead, HFA/Aspergers (and often a relatively mild form) is taken to be the be-all and end-all of autism, rather as if bolshie articles about blindness were written by people who wore glasses and were unwilling to accept that their impairment might be trivial compared to other people's.
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Date: 2004-04-29 03:59 am (UTC)The introduction read to me like that of a spoof; later on it looked like it was probably serious, and then at the end it was of course spoof again.
I was particularly at a loss to understand why allism, apparently defined as `the inability to independently experience emotions,' should have any bearing on whether one can use a computer.
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Date: 2004-04-29 06:13 am (UTC)It's that "the more 'autistic' you are, the better you are as a geek" fallacy yet again. Some circles see social disfunction as a cause for celebration. If these people were seriously autistic, they wouldn't give a shit about what other people think about them (or indeed understand that other people could think about them). Instead, HFA/Aspergers (and often a relatively mild form) is taken to be the be-all and end-all of autism, rather as if bolshie articles about blindness were written by people who wore glasses and were unwilling to accept that their impairment might be trivial compared to other people's.