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<p>Not all engineers are on the spectrum. Not all people on the
spectrum are engineers.</p>
<p>Let's say a healthy number, higher than in other professions, may
show traits. <br>
</p>
<p>Generalizations are onerous. I know a few extroverted engineers,
but if you want to use generalized Myer-Briggs, many are around
the center of the famous squares. Like venn diagrams, it's not
perfect.</p>
<p>This said, many that have found themselves in computing have
manifested many diverse backgrounds. Writing is similar. <br>
</p>
<p>When I was young, it would be tough to put yourself into a
career/vocation as a computerist, because there really wasn't such
a thing in 1968. It was then, as it is now, many different
disciplines coming together to re-invent how we process data. I
was lucky to choose electronics, knowing something about computing
from a young age. English teachers in my ancestry helped. <br>
</p>
<p>The very term "data processing" is an antique. Next year, I'll
officially be an antique as well. <br>
</p>
<p>Because of the diffuse nature of interdisciplinary convergence
applied to computing, it seems easy to feel like a duck out of
water, because both the duck and the water have been re-defined.
Both are fowl, pun intended.</p>
<p>A cop is now a public safety officer, a sociologist, crowd flow
expert, detective, negotiator, and perhaps a peace officer.
Because police have such an enormous burnout rate, they've also
banded very tightly together as a self-protection mechanism. Some
of the disciplines of computing have done the same thing. <br>
</p>
<p>Coders are an army, as are sysadmins, software engineers,
analysts, UI/UX designers, webadmins, and so forth. There's a
fraction of each of these that unlikely were schooled and
credentialized in their assumed positions, and I believe that this
fact is most prominent in the Imposter Syndrome. It also makes, if
you read the book long ago, an imposter-sentimented individual
more actively seeking conservative, rather than diffuse decision
making within that discipline as they perceive the discipline.
Altruists. People want to be a member.<br>
</p>
<p>This doesn't change my opinion that there are sincerely dedicated
individuals that don't know shit from shinola, and to that extent,
have brought acres of misery in systems foibles, ranging from
rotten security thinking through to stuff that just doesn't work
and was a bad idea in the first place.</p>
<p>Let those among you that haven't had to do tech support for your
family and friends, battle Comcast/ATT/Verizon etc., reboot
infinite amounts of stuff, or just show someone the hidden
selection on what should be an obvious app throw the first stone.
No, we're not perfect, but Darwinism plays too great a role in our
computing lives, IMHO.</p>
<p>Tom</p>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 09/10/2018 01:48 PM, Logan Harbaugh
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>It is interesting, though that
Silicon Valley has about six times the number of engineers
as the population as a whole, and also has about six times
the number of people on the autism spectrum…</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Thanks, </span><span></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:logan@lharba.com" moz-do-not-send="true"><span>logan@lharba.com</span></a></span><span><br>
</span><span>530-243-1346</span><span><br>
</span><span>1547 Magnolia Ave.</span><span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span> Ipg-smz
[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org">mailto:ipg-smz-bounces@netpress.org</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>sjvn<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Monday, September 10, 2018 9:28 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:ipg-smz@netpress.org">ipg-smz@netpress.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Ipg-smz] RU an imposter?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Sun, 2018-09-09 at 13:20 -0400,
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<p class="MsoNormal">that are by nature introverted and
anxious, to begin with, because they are ADHD and have other
neurological traits.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I agree about the introverted and anxious
part, but I'm not sold on ADHD having a heavy crossover with
writing and programming. We may think that because many of
us do jump from subject to subject, but we tend to do well
at each subject, which has not been what I've seen with
people with ADHD. </p>
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