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TL,DR: I don't see this as glorifying, but as a nuanced point of view. Autism is neither a fantastical thing nor is it necessarily the end of the world. It all depends on a lot of external factors, and the people around you (autistic or not) are a huge part of that.

For me this has nothing to do with supremacy and is just an explanation. Granted, I may be missing context, since I never heard anything about the account posting it, but on its own with no explanation I don't see it.

Supremacy would be if they said "NTs are so dumb for just speaking one language".

What I see there is NTs having the privilege that everyone around them understands them - similar to people in a rural area before the internet or mass media. They dont need to worry about being understood or think about how people could have other languages without necessarily being dumb - this is the difference between being smart and being educated.

Being educated is book knowledge that you have to acquire or be taught, but even without that you can be smart. And in my eyes it's a fact that neurotypicals are not well educated about autism, because a lot of the current knowledge is quite recent.

Also, this statement is solely about the social aspect, not talking about sensory issues. There's studies showing that autistic people among themselves communicate just as well as neurotypical people among themselves and issues show up when the neurotypes are mixed. I'm trying to remember names associated with it, but my memory fails me - I think it was a british study.

This study matches my personal experience though. And it's the reason why I disclose at work (thankfully my country has good protections in place).

With other autistic/often also adhd people, communication is pretty smooth. With NTs, there's hiccups, but they understand why and are patient because of that.

All this does not mean autism is a superpower or anything. Since I'm privileged enough to work in my special interest field, my hyperfocus kicks in quite a bit, so I can take advantage of that.

The sensory issues, on the other hand, can be quite debilitating at times, and I need accommodation for that. It's not all rainbows and sunshine even if you take the social issues out (or manage to alleviate them as in my case). Autism is still a disability after all, but posts like this are still a good thing because it's also not always doom and gloom. If you get the right environment, it can be manageable enough to have a decent life.

I'm insulted how little effort the author put into supporting his thesis.

"Streber" in German is a common insult if you're good in school, and it often meant social death in class. Sure, geek and nerd have become commonplace and are used as German words now, but that's also because if you are one your English is good enough and it's just easier to use the short word from another language that pretty much all geeks and nerds use than to use the German one.

It has actually not really the negative connotation that the English word has, it feels more like a name for a subculture, like goth.

The stairs of ascension to experienced DM are being made out of dead PCs? X)

Dude, have you any idea how many doctors told me (professionally diagnosed) that I can't be autistic, sure, this is a bit weird, but it's probably just X, that weird thing is probably just Y and so on, telling me I have like ten other things when all these ten things are all explained by autism?

All because drumroll I can hold eye contact. Yes, I've been pressured into masking hard. It makes me suffer, and now you use it to deny me support?

Most doctors have not kept up with the development on diagnosing atypical autism and the ones that do you have almost no chance of scoring an appointment with.

And I am in a coultry where we at least do consider autism for females. There's still lots of countries where high-functioning autists don't get diagnosed.

Let people "self-diagnose" if it means they findcoping mechanisms and things that explain thwir behaviors. Allow them to say "fuck you" when someone tells them they're not trying hard enough because they are just lazy, when in reality they are so overwhelmed they can barely function.

Don't actively make people miserable, because they for whatever reason do not have a formal diagnosis. I encourage most peoble to get one, but I also heard of places that use an official diagnosis against them. I think I read someone from the UK claiming they had custody of their kids challenged because of a diagnosis.

Let people find their coping mechanisms. Even if in the end they don't have autism, how does this affect you or me or any other autistic person?

If you are concerned about environment, maybe look for companies that make software for public transport. DB Systems, Init Group, PTVgroup are some companies of the top of my head. DB Systems is not the best working climate (or at least used to be, I had someone close to me work there and they hated it a few years ago).

My understanding of that article was that it was not necessarily about duplicated code, but duplicated data. If you have two places storing the same data, and different parts of your app go to each of it, you need to somehow keep them in sync, and that's often a pain.

I'm trying to be very rigorous about avoiding that, duplicated code I'm a bit less rigorous about.

That's the official version, but at least when I talk about some average dude it's way too long and artificial, I don't think the name Mustermann actually exists.

When I think of the most common name to use in casual conversation, I'd probably go for Müller (maybe Peter? Though the first name is probably heavily generation-dependent).

In older publication you may alse find references to "der deutsche Michel" (the german Michel, short for Michael) as a somewhat condescending reference to the average citizen who is very hesitant to adopt new concepts and tech and not always able or willing to understand complex concepts. Often used to remark that a product/idea will not have a chance on the market because "der deutsche Michel" doesn't see the pointor would never pick it up.

Haven't seen that in a while though, I guess Germans have become more open to new stuff :)

The most important thing is to start. Which language you pick is less important, once you grasp a concept you can just google how the syntax is for another language.

I made the mistake of being too brainy - thinking too much about how to start correctly and which language to pick. I ended up waffling around with some python here, some javascript there, and some c# as well. In hindsight I think just startingin any language and trying to |ake projects instead of looking for the perfect course and combination would have helped much more.

I personally like w3schools a lot, they have very concise courses for a lot of languages, and also a reference for most of them so if you don't want to follow a course you can just look up things real quick and see what happens.

It will get better. Right after school I felt disoriented by the lack of structure and overwhelmed by the decisions to make. Once you work through that, you will be less overstimulated and able to tackle things again!

Agreed! A good meme will make me laugh even if I've seen it before, unless it was three times yesterday.

I'm not American, but I born and bred in the EU. Please don't assume wildly :)

I still view it as a value issue: you are looking out for your own good above contributing to society. If everyone does that, it will be utterly impossible for society to actually give back, because you're depriving society of the taxes it needs to move.

I'd rather contribute to society and the social security net we have. Any society will have people who are unable to work due to disability or sickness, and to me taking care of your weak links is a mark of civilization. We don't have to leave disabled or injured members of society in the dust to die. We have the means to take care of them, and that's what taxes are for.

But we kind of lost track of the original question, why the wages are lower in the EU than in the US. In my opinion it's because with all the social security and insurance it is not necessary and the environment - the society - is providing part of what you get in monetary form in the US.

I guess it's a difference in values, which affects your perspective. You can see it as robbing, or as contributing to society.

I'm trying to word it as neutral as possible, but it's really hard in the values area. I think both sets of values are valid. I may not agree with yours, but that's the thing with moral values - if you don't share the same values, you will never see eye to eye or agree. Hard to be objective in such a situation.

Tl,dr: you value different things, which is not evil or bad, but completely valid. It's just that I personally with my values don't agree and see it negatively.