Comment by porknubbins

I remember as late as 2010 or so watching a documentary on Temple Garandin back when I thought of autism as a serious impairment being kind of fascinated how successful she was despite the condition. Then the phrase “on the spectrum” came out and half of silicon valley claims to have it, as if not being super outgoing or occasionally awkward makes one neurodivergent. I even kicked around the idea I might have it as I enjoy building circuit boards and am not great at certain types of emoting, but have zero sensory issues so am probably just normal nerdy.