I took the German or Autistic diagnostic and scored Neither. I am apparently the control group.
Am I German or Autistic?
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Re: Am I German or Autistic?
#172Earlier quoted context omitted.
I fully agree with this sentiment. I set a high standard for my punctuality but I don't care if you're late. I just silently judge you.
"I don't care if you're late" versus "I just silently judge you". Which one is it?
Not OP but my general approach is similar: "I see it as wrong but do not feel entitled to impose my standards on others".
Re: Am I German or Autistic?
#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
The Deutsche Bahn rather cancel trains completely instead of them being late - which also says something.
People love to parrot this, but it's not true and makes no sense for them to try and game the system this way. The mandatory compensation and bad press from cancelled trains is way more costly on them than having poor punctuality statistics. The reason that a late train can sometimes be cancelled is to try and stop a cascade of delays from happening. Tracks only have so much capacity, and if train gets delayed into a…
By the time a train is delayed enough to be canceled the mandatory compensation applies anyway, and I'm not sure how much DB cares about bad press.
I can see the cancellations as a means of stopping a cascade of delays, but it's also true that doing so means the train won't count in the delay statistics for the remaining stops. If DB doesn't want people to accuse them of gaming the statistics, perhaps they should calculate said statistics in a way that doesn't directly benefit them when they inconvenience their delayed passengers even more?
Re: Am I German or Autistic?
#174I lived in Germany for four years, but no longer there. I got 42% German / 20% Autistic grade and I am not European at all.
Re: Am I German or Autistic?
#175The test doesn't follow the correct procedures for diagnosing autism and after a thorough reading of the DSM-5-TR I could find no mention of German a mental illness being and I challenge anyone to me wrong prove.
It's obvious Claude slop, a stupid meme for people who want to think they are special
I’m pretty sure Claude is German, which complicates things.
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#176I got neither. Is this good or bad?
You are, as far as this diagnostic can establish, neither specifically German in your cognitive habits nor particularly autistic in your neurological profile. You are something rarer in the context of people who take quizzes like this: apparently normal about it.
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#177Posting my result here in case you want to see the different results without redoing the test: German 47% - Autistic 47% Wittgenstein was Austrian, which is close enough. He was also, by most accounts, someone whose relationship to social convention was at best functional and at worst a source of significant suffering to himself and everyone around him. He rewrote philosophy twice. The first time by establishing what…
I got the very same 47/47. What if it's always giving that?
I got the very same 47/47. What if it's always giving that?
Might just be that a lot of people on HN skew that way. Kinda makes sense.
I got 47/62.
Re: Am I German or Autistic?
#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
I guess the Brazilian take on this would be: "Being on time is rude because you may be disturbing your host before they’ve made all the preparations they need before your arrival. Being early would be an outrageous offense." It always amazes me how Brazilians and Germans can be so different when it comes to punctuality and yet so similar when it comes to their love of bureaucracy (and devotion to soccer, for that mat…
In the Brazilian case, it is not so much "love of bureaucracy" but rather "bureaucracy as a protection against private capture of public goods and services".
Ha, ha, true, I struggled with which verb to use for "love" but thinking about it what you wrote would not be completely wrong for Germany as well.
Re: Am I German or Autistic?
#179Posting my result here in case you want to see the different results without redoing the test: German 47% - Autistic 47% Wittgenstein was Austrian, which is close enough. He was also, by most accounts, someone whose relationship to social convention was at best functional and at worst a source of significant suffering to himself and everyone around him. He rewrote philosophy twice. The first time by establishing what…
Yea same, at roughly 40/40, and this little bit does really ring true for me:
> the gap between how things are and how they ought to be is not an abstraction but a constant, low-grade irritation
Re: Am I German or Autistic?
#180Feature request: a worldle style share button. E.g. 42%(DE emoji) 20%(Puzzle emoji) Update: I scrolled down. Your share button is pretty good!
I'm not an expert in autism or the autism community but I was under the impression that the puzzle piece mostly represents Autism Speaks, a group which much of the community does not care for. As I understand it many don't care for the way that Autism Speaks treats those with autism as children regardless of age or capability and many find it patronizing if not outright insulting.