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by watwut 3093 days ago
Asperger is now officially just mild Autism. Of course, they can lie, through it is harder for them to lie convincibly.

> Many people on the tech scene start programming at an early age

That has absolutely nothing to do with anything except right kind of adults around..

> and are obsessed with computers at some point in their lives

Sure, just like people in other professions get obsessed over this or that at some point in their lives. And it is not nearly the same as when someone with autism displays that symptome. Healthy person obsession is much different and causes way less difficulties to that person.

> Nevertheless, I still think an interviewer should note that the candidate is stubborn or pretentious, rather than just writing "on the spectrum".

The two are not the same tho.