• applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    3 days ago

    I agree the stance is invalidating and wrong. That said highly technical jobs strongly favor neurodiverse people. I know my last job (engineer at aerospace company) had a very high percentage of neurodivergent engineers, like probably over 90% from what I could tell, including myself. Not in a subtle way either, like most of them had diagnoses already and the rest showed so many signs I don’t doubt an expert would diagnose them pretty quickly. I doubt that’s what he meant but you probably really are surrounded by neurodivergent people at work (even if they don’t know they are).

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      3 days ago

      Yeah, I’ve met neurotypical engineers, but there’s a reason we’re treated as different from most careers especially in how we interact with people and need to be managed.