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I feel like it's an open secret that a huge percentage [1] of people in the tech industry are somewhere on the autism spectrum. Whether they've been formally diagnosed is another question.

[1] I don't have numbers, but greater than 50% wouldn't be surprising.

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Although I do agree that the percentage of people on the spectrum is higher in tech industry than in other industries, I think it's not higher than some 5-15%. When you ascribe to every introverted person being on the spectrum, you neglect the significance of it in people who really have it. It's like you're saying "yeah, we're all like this, so don't pretend you can't do this or that".

Noticing that someone doesn't choose to play all the reindeer games the same way I would play them is different from discovering that they're fundamentally incapable.

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