• @taiyang
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    14 hours ago

    The engineer here definitely has ASD or ADHD and I’m fucking down for it. Way better than narcissistic tech bro syndrome.

    Edit for context: I’m teaching strengths based pedagogy regarding neurodiversity, it’s on my mind lol

    • @[email protected]
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      1513 hours ago

      Lemmy is slowly shifting from “Communism, Linux, and Beans” into “ADHD, Linux, and Beans”

      • @[email protected]
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        113 hours ago

        How do you think Beans became a thing?

        I’ll tell you, if we were all on my Adderall 24/7, beans, beef stroganoff, stock photos, etc would all be a weird eyebrow raise before onto the next post.

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      614 hours ago

      I have an adhd engineer coleague. We don’t give him large or complex tasks, that doesn’t work, but he gets all the little things and bugs done before anyone else thinks of picking them up 👌

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        813 hours ago

        Shit! I love my job as a software developer and my employer is amazing, but I wish they would do this for me. Also ADHD and I have an existential crisis every time I’m on a larger task with little direction.

        I love the small things or when things are spec’d out in to small parts. Currently have to extract this sick calendar my boss coded and repurpose it in an application I am creating for them and man it’s not as easy as it sounds when you get overwhelmed.

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          413 hours ago

          My ADHD friend is a software engineer but he’s lucky he gets hyperfocus when on new projects that he’s interested in. Works an absolute fuckton on it and then the rest help finish off the job after he tires on it, with him giving them guidance in zoom (while playing steam deck on my couch lol)

          It takes good leadership though. It’s unfortunate managers don’t get the same kind of lessons we teach teachers. There are so many ways to accommodate your work method.

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            313 hours ago

            Hey, I do this. Sort of. Makes me wonder if I added my deck into the routine if it would be more effective.

            Work that no one has done before and is an interesting problem I can dive into and become a wizard on in no time. Only problem is I rarely get the time required to do it, unless I sacrifice personal time or maybe a goat

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        5 hours ago

        NPD doesn’t get the same treatment since I don’t think it’s protected under ADA (and IDEA in schools) but even then, there’s a school of thought that it comes from an overabundance of high self esteem (rather than a fragile self esteem). If you follow that logic, then things associated with high self esteem, such as confidence, is it’s strength.

        Mind, I teach non-narcissism high self esteem as both good and bad. On the one hand, you have confidence and are more likely to take action. On the other hand, you’re more defensive and it’s likely to accept criticism, plus if you think you’re awesome you tend to also have contempt for others. Take that to an extreme and you’ve got narcissism.

        Americans are usually taught self esteem as a universal good, so just bringing it up like this raises eyebrows, but there is actually some research to back it.

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          25 hours ago

          What if you think you kinda suck, but also think most other people are way the fuck worse?

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            14 hours ago

            Well, low self esteem is shown to be more accurate about the world, so that kind of tracks.