[pingeroo]

Some aspies are awesome others are asshats — like anyone else. Am somewhat envious of the Vitalik types but at the same time I wouldn’t trade my “neurotypical” brain for an autistic one.

I am a social animal. I like getting along with people. I like being able to feel how others feel by hearing their tone of voice or looking at their face.

If I wanna concentrate I consume caffeine.

[Melting_Harps]

> . Am somewhat envious of the Vitalik types but at the same time I wouldn’t trade my “neurotypical” brain for an autistic one.

I'm genuinely curious, you'd want to be a person who developed perhaps one of the most needlessly complex and obtuse programing languages riddled with bugs and have an even more nebulous idea of what it's built for but assured everyone it was to revolutionize the World via something VC scammers would eventually call Web3 after failing to build the first 'global computer'?

To date, Vitalik represents exactly what HN seems to think about crypto; lots of promises with no real use-cases which all end up as vapourware and exit scams.

I've been in this since he was in an Unsystem member squatting with Amir, and to be honest the only way I can justify his trajectory was that he was always a scammer and was bidding his time, and just decided to take his scam and build an aura of mystique around his... condition as a marketing ploy to justify the horrible thing he has built that's led to countless hacks. Hacks that I personally hope are being used to fund more interesting and viable things, because there is no way you can explain going from building tools like dark wallet/market to crypto kitties and NFTs and have it make any sense other than sheer grift.

With that said, I've worked with outreach programs to reintegrate people on the severely incapacitated end of the autistic spectrum: and I wouldn't wish that on anyone. To live a life with no autonomy and have no real capacity to communicate or to articulate your thoughts is perhaps the worst type of hell I can think of as our very species 'Homo Sapien' translates to Wise Man and often refereed to as a thinking monkey and they have been robbed of their very Humanity.

[swayvil]

They may be assholes but gosh aren't they productive.

It reminds me of dwarves from Norse mythology. Short guys in their little workrooms underground banging away at projects. Grumpy. Making miraculous stuff. The shoe fits.

[pingeroo]

Very poetic way of putting it and I agree these are people we certainly need! Wouldn’t be writing this message if it weren’t for autism. But to some extent they are beasts of burden.

Musk talks about his brain as if it’s possessed by demons sending him a million thoughts a minute. Not fun.

[matheusmoreira]

> But to some extent they are beasts of burden.

What? I'm sorry but I find that to be dehumanizing towards people on the spectrum. They are human beings like us.

[swayvil]

Ya, beasts of burden sounds right. Geese laying golden eggs too. Destined for the egg factory.

[Ygg2]

> his brain as if it’s possessed by demons sending him a million thoughts

Has he tried logging off?

[loriverkutya]

I’m not sure why you think people on the spectrum cannot feel how others feel, but that is not the case.