What I dislike in this text is that it treats people with Asperger syndrome as people with a problem that needs to be addressed.
What if not Aspies are wrong, but rest of the world?
When I'm in a regular office the first thing that I notice is how unproductive an average worker is. Massive amounts of time burned in bureaucracy; hours wasted during the meetings etc., etc.
Neither. The problem isn't aspies or the rest of the world. The problem is a lack of understanding of neurodiversity.
Everybody is different neurologically, weird, undefinable, sometimes subtle ways. The only way our society can grasp that now is by using the disorder/disease/problem mentality. Which is way better than nothing, but not ideal.
You don't have to have to be socially disabled to think bureaucracy, meeetings & office politics is boring unproductive BS. Why do you think people start starups :P
It's an interesting egotistical defense I notice most autistics use; saying that everyone else is WRONG and I am RIGHT; using derogatory terms such as 'neurotypical'; which all stems from their frustration in trying to work in a social world.
While I can't speak for all people, the aspies I know use "neurotypical" as a neutral label, not a derogatory one. What would you have them call everyone else?
I agree its important to separate out the concerns of office productivity with these individual world viewpoints that people possess (either more aspergers-like, or more towards a social bent). Even if kept bundled I credit those with aspergers for refusing to conduct business as usual, but rather having higher expectations for themselves and others. However using terms like neurotypical are vital to push back on the onslaught of views represented in for example this computer world article; note that they are using a questioanable tool, "psychology", to analyze the "problem". See pg's article for reasons the science has yet to be grounded. I believe this is it http://paulgraham.com/valueofphilosophy.html
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What I dislike in this text is that it treats people with Asperger syndrome as people with a problem that needs to be addressed.
What if not Aspies are wrong, but rest of the world?
When I'm in a regular office the first thing that I notice is how unproductive an average worker is. Massive amounts of time burned in bureaucracy; hours wasted during the meetings etc., etc.
Neither. The problem isn't aspies or the rest of the world. The problem is a lack of understanding of neurodiversity.
Everybody is different neurologically, weird, undefinable, sometimes subtle ways. The only way our society can grasp that now is by using the disorder/disease/problem mentality. Which is way better than nothing, but not ideal.
You don't have to have to be socially disabled to think bureaucracy, meeetings & office politics is boring unproductive BS. Why do you think people start starups :P
It's an interesting egotistical defense I notice most autistics use; saying that everyone else is WRONG and I am RIGHT; using derogatory terms such as 'neurotypical'; which all stems from their frustration in trying to work in a social world.
While I can't speak for all people, the aspies I know use "neurotypical" as a neutral label, not a derogatory one. What would you have them call everyone else?
I agree its important to separate out the concerns of office productivity with these individual world viewpoints that people possess (either more aspergers-like, or more towards a social bent). Even if kept bundled I credit those with aspergers for refusing to conduct business as usual, but rather having higher expectations for themselves and others. However using terms like neurotypical are vital to push back on the onslaught of views represented in for example this computer world article; note that they are using a questioanable tool, "psychology", to analyze the "problem". See pg's article for reasons the science has yet to be grounded. I believe this is it http://paulgraham.com/valueofphilosophy.html