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[–] Arcanepotato@crazypeople.online 4 points 8 hours ago

This makes me lol because I work in an industry where people are extremely "not normal".

There are a handful of people who I would believe fit into the neurotypical category. But it's largely blue collar trades people who are at the top of their field so people are pretty accepting of quirks. It would be fascinating to study how under diagnosis of men in the trades compares to under diagnosis of "shy" women and girls.

Some example:

  • people who would say they don't do math or stats but who have hockey draft spreadsheets that they fill out while watching live draft coverage.
  • the people who I encounter in tunnels way after hours who are, like me, just trying to answer a question that's been bugging them and can't stop until they figure it out.
  • the person who told me he was going to go home and build a model of the mixing system I described (was describing an existing system that is being operated incorrectly and how it should look) so that he could better understand it
  • all the people who have the flat affect come out when they are dumping data (this warms my heart lol)

I'm on the fence about disclosing at work because if I get a response like that I will lose my mind and don't trust myself not to blurt out "half of y'all are autistic but aren't ready to hear that".

(That would be incredibly inappropriate for so many reasons)