Hi :) Thanks :) Not everyone realises that and many of us on this mailing list often do the same as Andreas did too :)
A lot of people in IT have aspergers syndrome or similar things and we don't always realise that people might misinterpret things we say. We often just say exactly what we mean but then people add all sorts of emotional stuff into it and sometimes even end-up thinking we've said the reverse of what we really said. Even non-Aspies in a lot of areas of IT get used to communicating in much the same way = just direct and clear with no spin or anything. I am kinda hyper-sensitive to things like that and try to help Neurotypicals (NTs) http://musingsofanaspie.com/2013/01/10/what-is-neurotypical/ to understand what was probably meant. I am probably so hyper-sensitive to it because it is such a nightmare for me to try to get myself understood by NTs. For many years i just thought certain sorts of people were being deliberately obtuse but then i found a LOT of other people had the same problem as me and that it's not something i can fix but is possible to work-around the most frequent misunderstandings, sometimes. Apparently Aspies are so common at Microsoft that their health-care now includes testing employees children for it, if the employee wants. I cynically suspect that it is to help spot likely programmers from a MUCH earlier age but many aspies (and auties) are 'gifted' musicians or amazing artists instead. Regards from Tom :) On 17 April 2015 at 11:35, martin f krafft <[email protected]> wrote: > also sprach Tom Davies <[email protected]> [2015-04-16 21:06 +0200]: > > I'm not sure that aspect is clear from Andreas' post but he > > probably didn't mean it to be as rude as it might have sounded. > > It is just something that could potentially be helpful. > > Wait wait, I am a Debian developer for almost 20 years and a FLOSS > contributor for longer than that, which means two things: I know > perfectly well how to read messages on mailing lists, and I should > have done my homework better. > > I appreciated Andreas' replies and didn't think they were rude. > I should have researched this better and provided more information. > Truth is that I was under time pressure and not particularly excited > to dive into MacroScript or whatever it's called. > > So, no hard feelings. I hope I can catch up and deliver what > I should have sent in the first place. > > -- > @martinkrafft | http://madduck.net/ | http://two.sentenc.es/ > > "a warm bed in a house sounds a mite better > than eating a hot dog on a stick > with an old geezer traveling on a lawn mower." > -- alvin straight (the straight story) > > spamtraps: [email protected] > -- 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
