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Twitter engineer calls out Elon Musk for technical BS in unusual career move

Kristian Walsh Silver badge

Re: Wow. 42 thumbs down.

Thank you.

Over decades in the computing business, I have had many, many friends, classmates, managers and co-workers with various Autism-ish neurodivergencies over the years. You can’t spend any time in this field and not do. Of all of those people, only one was an asshole. For reference, that's actually far lower than the rate of assholes in the non-AS cohort I’ve known.

Basically, Elon Musk acts like an asshole primarily because he is an asshole. Aspergers has not made him an asshole, it’s an orthogonal, and very much secondary, personality trait to the more prominent “is an asshole” axis.

But, Elon doubles down on being a fucking asshole in the way he’s happy to ascribe being an asshole to having Aspergers, as if common fucking decency is somehow fundamentally incompatible with neurodivergency. That is, to use the technical term, horseshit. But by perpetuating this lie, he’s landing another king-size bucket of shit over everyone else with AS who has the decency to try do right by their fellow humans despite having their well-meaning actions frequently misunderstood by us “normies”.

tl;dr? He's a prick.

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