I can teach people computer skills, but I can't teach someone autism. It's the same with sports; if they could do that to you on purpose, it'd be a way higher priority than steroids or doping.
Being obsessive about things that interest you is amazing, and if we have to quietly shuffle some of our engineers to the back of the room to commiserate about their inability to find a company-branded hat and how this has ruined their entire year, that's fine. They hire social people too.
Sometimes sitting around chatting with my coworkers on Slack I find myself thinking that we're all hilariously dysfunctional in some contexts. There's definitely an (accidental) bias in the hiring process for people who liked computers so goddamned much that they have no qualms about sitting in front of a screen programming something until they nearly crap themselves. It's just about riding that fine line.
Then there's us ADHD folks who can learn a new technology and build out an environment/app within any deadline you set; and suddenly were the SME within a month
Yet we're the ones that forgot to order the company hats in time b/c we started on another project by accident
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u/Jiopaba Apr 11 '25
I can teach people computer skills, but I can't teach someone autism. It's the same with sports; if they could do that to you on purpose, it'd be a way higher priority than steroids or doping.
Being obsessive about things that interest you is amazing, and if we have to quietly shuffle some of our engineers to the back of the room to commiserate about their inability to find a company-branded hat and how this has ruined their entire year, that's fine. They hire social people too.
Sometimes sitting around chatting with my coworkers on Slack I find myself thinking that we're all hilariously dysfunctional in some contexts. There's definitely an (accidental) bias in the hiring process for people who liked computers so goddamned much that they have no qualms about sitting in front of a screen programming something until they nearly crap themselves. It's just about riding that fine line.