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Another way to interpret the parent comment would be that a lot of people are autistic.

• pipeline_peak 10mo ago
  The parent comment is also saying if they weren’t autistic, half the it force would be gone. Sounds pretty black and white.
  • JohnMakin 10mo ago
    It’s saying that the conditions and traits that tend to select for IT people is often represented in autistic populations. Anyone that’s managed in IT can attest to this. Maybe “half” was a figurative exaggeration for effect, but you seem to be injecting an entirely different meaning and bias into the comment.
    • pipeline_peak 10mo ago
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      • lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 10mo ago
        > I’m not vilifying you, it was just a poor choice of words. You're not being honest here. Questioning someone's belief and calling it gross is vilifying, regardless of any agreement or lack thereof from a broader community. Additionally, finding the one disagreeable point and harping on that instead of any of the rest of the points they made is another means of vilification.
      • JohnMakin 10mo ago
        I literally did not say this. Go back and read it.
        • pipeline_peak 10mo ago
          >Say somehow you could eliminate autism spectrum disorder - there goes half your IT staff. If they didn’t have autism, they wouldn’t be in IT
          • JohnMakin 10mo ago
            I’m not sure you are actually reading the sentence. Since you seem insistent on not doing so, I’m done with this conversation.