How many of y’all have ever worked with someone who never went to college?

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Most of my jobs.  Food prep, cashier, gas station attendant, grocery bagger. Didn't start working "civilized" jobs until fairly recently and am still sort of out of place there despite having spent more time in college than almost anyone.

I hear that. 

The unwritten rules of tech that you miss when working “uncivilized” jobs or growing up outside a specific social strata are really hard to parse as an outsider.

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Somehow, developing lucid paranoid schizophrenia after learning to mask my autism balanced out my autism while allowing me to retain a poker face that prevents people from realizing I'm insane.  I am always trying to understand people in terms of economies of attention, hierarchy, arbitrary pet peeves: slow, deliberate

It was hugely helpful to work with mentally handicapped people for a while. Smart people have all the same basic behaviors as mentally handicapped people, just a bigger vocabulary and more autonomy. They aren't used to being policed, so you have to be even gentler ironically

This is even more fascinating. 

Have you written this out in longer form?

I've written down some of the general perspectives that came out of it.  The big thing is my four part blog post "Towards a pseudo formalization of a bad attitude" on Dancefighterredux.WordPress.com and later alephwyr.substack.com. But as for more targeted introspection not really, not yet.

A lot of my theory is scattered at random in social media posts. I think autism is in some forms just the neurotypical social instinct but that formed a feedback loop with other domains.  So an autistic interfaces with their chosen obsession using the same cognitive tools allistics use to interface with each other.

I don't really know what schizophrenia is. I am not a normal schizophrenic. I am like a much dumber and less useful John Nash or Phillip K Dick. All I know is that I can mask my schizophrenia symptoms pretty effectively using techniques that wouldn't work unless people had pretty massive epistemic holes.

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It's really just a hunch or intuition. It's based on observing that the confluence of autism and low grade schizophrenia traditionally manifests as shamanism, which is the personification of nature and reasoning about nature as if it were a person. Also that there's no such thing as a meaningless relationship

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I identify as neurodiverse but would love to learn more about autism specifically

I really don't know.  Guessing wildly I would say the issue seems to be that Autistics bond primarily to non social domains as their "native" frame of reference, and allistics to social domains. Observing non verbal autistic kids, I've seen them perform recursion when playing, so they should be able to speak, but can't

Do you think allistic folks can’t interface with non-social domains using that same interface?

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