[gatormax]

When I first read this article --- and that was quite a while ago --- it was fuel for the fire of my false identity. I considered myself a hacker, a nerd, a geek, a genius --- I didn't care for "normal" people, and didn't care about their opinions of me. In fact, being a loner just solidified my geek cred.

Being a false identity, this made me miserable and greatly impaired me --- and as I have discovered my naturally gregarious self, my happiness and performance have skyrocketed. Now, the intent of this article is a defense of people with non-neurotypical neural patterns, and I think there is a lot of merit in that. But I worry about somebody misapplying the message as I did (and suffering therefore). So please, if you feel this article fueling a fire within you, I beseech you to take a few steps back. Creating a business that does something great for humanity does not require geek cred.