> 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 > engineers and devs have "high functioning" aspergers syndrome or, > even further along the spectrum, autism and that where both parents > have such conditions their children are much more likely to have the > condition(s). So apparently MS health insurance covers the cost of > their employees getting their children tested for just those sorts of > condition(s). Mainstream society seems to consider such conditions > as "disabilities" but it seems that in some cases they can actually > be a benefit, as long as you can accept the social awkwardness and > social clumsiness that "comes with the turf". Going out into the > wider IT community many of us probably have OCD traits and other > conditions but often at such low levels that we might not notice it. > Again a lot of this might help with the work we do but probably > doesn't help us be sociably adept. So i think we have to accept > interesting oddities in the way we and the people around us behave in > order to benefit from the thing we/they are good at.
<tongue in cheek> You want to bitch about "social skills" of engineers? I definitely don't want to and won't bitch about the "social skills", much less the "technical skills" of braindead slimy weasels who don't have a clue of elementary analytical-deductive logics and don't care to get one, but still arrogate to "judge" as well as perpetrate their pervert sadistic narcissistic imperiousness over those who happen to have a higher IQ than a gully cover. Because anything I could say about those apparent hominid lifeforms, no matter what words I use, would just be a recklessly embellishing, dangerously softening euphemism. FYI: *High intelligence* together with *honesty*, *sincerity*, *authenticity* and *frank speech* aren't "disabilities" on the *senders'* side. Anyone who's so cognitively challenged and pampered in their psychotic self-delusion that they can't and don't want to take facts the way they are better learn the "social skills" to deal with physical reality and stop "shooting the messenger", i.e. those who already have them. Because we others are pretty well fed up with wasting our precious lifetime and brain bandwidth shielding you useless heaps of biomass from the Darwin effect. </tongue in cheek> >;-> Very sincerely, Wolfgang who keeps feeling like Nunez in the Country of the Blind when "socially" interacting with the very vast majority of conspecifics -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
