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I wish I was born in the first-world. You people seem to be having a lot of fun over there. In my (exploited by first-world for resources) country autists get bullied relentlessly and put to under-equipped mental asylums when they eventually break down. Can you see the hypocrisy? I see it everyday.
I wish I was born in the first-world. You people seem to be having a lot of fun over there. In my (exploited by first-world for resources) country autists get bullied relentlessly and put to under-equipped mental asylums when they eventually break down. Can you see the hypocrisy? I see it everyday.
No, what's the hypocrisy? It's a tragedy that mental health services and awareness are inadequate.
Wow, this strikes me as unbelievable. How things have changed since the industry was up in arms over Alex St. John's "Recruiting Giants" PDF [1] where he explicitly called out the "holy grail" employee: Be on the look out for the holy-grail... the undiscovered Asperger's engineer. (usually found on open source forums) * They have no social skills * They generally marry the first girl they date * Can't make eye contac…
I wish I was born in the first-world. You people seem to be having a lot of fun over there. In my (exploited by first-world for resources) country autists get bullied relentlessly and put to under-equipped mental asylums when they eventually break down. Can you see the hypocrisy? I see it everyday.
Wow, this strikes me as unbelievable. How things have changed since the industry was up in arms over Alex St. John's "Recruiting Giants" PDF [1] where he explicitly called out the "holy grail" employee: Be on the look out for the holy-grail... the undiscovered Asperger's engineer. (usually found on open source forums) * They have no social skills * They generally marry the first girl they date * Can't make eye contac…
People are generally more forgiving when you perceive your employees' disability in a positive light instead of viewing their disabilities as something to exploit. It's a subtle difference, but the first one encourages/enables the employee to function in spite of their disability or perhaps one day overcome the shortcomings, or simply work in a way / environment where it becomes irrelevant. (Software development alre…
Is that what this is?
I guess it's no more exploitative than employing anyone else.
So programs of this nature are wonderful to see — they create the opportunity to learn from and work with people who think differently than the general population.
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No, what's the hypocrisy? It's a tragedy that mental health services and awareness are inadequate.
Hypocrisy is that your biggest national export is suffering. Less there, more here.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."
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Hypocrisy is that your biggest national export is suffering. Less there, more here.
I'm sorry for your suffering, but please don't take HN threads on tangents like this, so we don't have to ban you again. This is in the guidelines: " Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents. " https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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People are generally more forgiving when you perceive your employees' disability in a positive light instead of viewing their disabilities as something to exploit. It's a subtle difference, but the first one encourages/enables the employee to function in spite of their disability or perhaps one day overcome the shortcomings, or simply work in a way / environment where it becomes irrelevant. (Software development alre…
> People are generally more forgiving when you perceive your employees' disability in a positive light instead of viewing their disabilities as something to exploit. Is that what this is? I guess it's no more exploitative than employing anyone else.
I think it’s way more exploitative because you’re not leveraging a person’s (by average definition) “strengths” to your/the company’s benefits, you’re using their weaknesses (and weaknesses are relative, but I’d say the list of traits above most people will probably think might complicate or hinder the persons long term success or happiness - in fact it could easily lead to one sided exploitation).