What I find really interesting is that, for all of the stereotypes, a lot of nerd culture is based around events or interests as a way to facilitate socializing. You ever play DnD alone? You enter a fandom as a way to talk to people and as a vehicle of expression. Sports geeks have their fantasy league, and there's some weird tumblr follower and facebook friend collection culture I'm just not a part of. Then there's the world of memes, which is weird. Hell gun culture has something that they describe as their Barbies.Monxeroth said:I know any brony reading this or well, furry too for that matter or anyone part of a stigmatized community. Sometimes, there is no smoke without fire and there CAN actually be a small hint of truth to the whole: Lol only autistic sexually frustrated manchild neckbeards watch this show for little girls.
Yes, yes they do and no its not inherently a bad thing.
In the words of Ice Cube
"Embrace yo stereotype" - 21 Jp St.
First, Autism and Autist/Autistic is the new "******", "retard". It just rolls off the tongue.Monxeroth said:I know any brony reading this or well, furry too for that matter or anyone part of a stigmatized community. Sometimes, there is no smoke without fire and there CAN actually be a small hint of truth to the whole: Lol only autistic sexually frustrated manchild neckbeards watch this show for little girls.
Yes, yes they do and no its not inherently a bad thing.
In the words of Ice Cube
"Embrace yo stereotype" - 21 Jp St.
Fixation, obession, passion, enthusiasm and autism sometimes do go hand in hand, its not that hard to accept and like i said, neither is it a bad thing. Hell some of the most brilliant minds in history had hints of autism or social problems in their days.
I think the whole stigma around autism and aspergers comes from oversimplifying a lot of the traits.
Like when you just suddenly see someone enthusiastic about anything these days or someone wanting to be creative, most comments of anything new just screams: LOL THE AUTISM IS STRONG WITH THIS ONE.
In short, a "frat boy" programmer. Like so [//www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-03-01/the-rise-of-the-brogrammer].Pink Gregory said:Who or what on earth is a 'brogrammer'?
Yes, praise where praise is due. I went into to this thinking "please don't be too preachy.. please don't be too preachy" and it was just fine.Mahoshonen said:Good episode: touched on an interesting subject while not getting into the area of preachiness.
I also suspect a lot of people with Aspergers or those kinds of qualities are drawn to fantasy and scifi. That's certainly true for me. I can identify with trying to get along with an alien culture (which is what 'normal' social interaction is for me.) and I identify with characters like Spock or Data who aren't quite human. They kinda have the role of someone partially observing humanity from the outside, which is what I always felt like. As a kid I was convinced I wasn't human because I couldn't do things that everyone else seemed to, like recognise faces or emotions, or know when you were supposed to lie.Izanagi009 said:Yeah, I even have an unsubstantiated theory that nerds and even early otaku in Japan all suffered from some form of Autism (i myself have Aspergers). All of the characteristics are evident: limited social interactivity, attachment to items and trends, and in extreme cases like otaku, lack of emotional intelligence in terms of identification and how to respond.DVS BSTrD said:Wellll I have Asbergers so that's probably true. Kinda thought the two were synonymous already.