I’m autistic. This problem shows up for me all over the place, to the point that I typically don’t recommend reading anymore except when strictly necessary. However, it is showing up now because I’m working with people on a project (and generally everyone I have worked with at school so far) who will not read, particularly documentation for tools and programs, data sheets, and application notes. How do I get people “up to speed” if they refuse to read the things I send them?
Some concepts are simply too complex or too lengthy for me to explain correctly in a real conversation. It’s really the fact that nobody seems to want to read in any field of endeavor suggests that it’s something wrong with me and how I perceive things.
Exactly that. I’ve got the same problem here. I’ve got my side of the project well-documented, but the head PC software guy often phones me out of the blue, asking me questions that have long been documented.
Luckily, I can tell him (on most questions) that the information he looks for is so old that I don’t have it present anymore, and would have to read my own documentation to get him the answer, so he could do it himself…