Hello,
Speaking as an "Aspie" myself, who helps fellow Aspies better work and live
with others (and vice versa), thank you very much for your effort to
understand.
If I may:
(1) You're right about its being Asperger Syndrome, named as it is after
Dr. Hans Asperger who discovered it. It's also kn
Hi :)
Disagreements are fine imo. They lead to discussions and maybe even to
thinking in a new way or taking on new ideas. Often we just get entrenched
in old thought-patterns but at least the other people on the mailing list
can then assess the qualities of the ideas.
Clearly me and Tom disagre
I see these arguments in my emails, and peruse some, but generally once I
have the gist of things, I press delete! But it does not put me off, trying
to sell the idea of free, to my customers, and say there is lots of support
out there etc.
When I say sell the idea, I mean compare the the well kno
> Yes, in the IT world it is
> quite common for technically talented people to exhibit impaired
> social skills.
Not really, in my experience. It's common for IT people to *claim* to
have Asperger Syndrome or some such, but it's not nearly as common as
people think. My experience may be limited, bu
On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:52:18 +0100
Tom Davies wrote:
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>
> On a side-issue ...
> The ones where Urmas does help are often highly technical. That
> raises the question of whether Urmas is a dev and just socially
> clumsy as so many are. Apparently Microsoft have recognised that
> many engin