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This looks like a good time (lemmy.world)

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[–] heartSagan5@lemmy.zip 4 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

“You like math; therefore, autistic” is such low brow judgement, if I ever heard one. Next they’re going to say, “if you really like ‘don’t jump on a crack or you’ll break your mother’s back,” you’re autistic.

[–] toynbee@piefed.social 6 points 3 weeks ago

My brother, who got a PhD in pure mathematics at age 27, is someone I suspect of being, if not autistic, at least neurodivergent. Last year, I was being accused by several of being autistic and had relayed that to him; we were discussing each other's tendencies and trying to decide, among other things, whether they mattered.

Then one morning I woke up to an unprompted text from him containing one of my favorite sentences ever:

It just occurred to me, if I do have some species of autism maybe it doesn't disturb me too much because I like trying to figure out the rule sets in complicated systems ….

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I’m sure the venn diagrams have a large intersection, but they’re not 100%