New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: On autistic spectrum, best way to live?
Ask HN: On autistic spectrum, best way to live? 5 by beaunative | 0 comments on Hacker News. I've been highly logical and obsessive with reading since early childhood, and I got into programming pretty early and built Flash animation since kindergarten. I've always had issues with my peers and teachers, I got bullied quite often, and it was a source of emotional distress. I felt the constant need to work on things that intrigues me, and I'd read books like encyclopedia, I didn't know that then, but I now suspect myself to be on the spectrum. I believe many in the HN community have or suspected themselves to be on a spectrum as well? It's pretty traumatizing growing up because most other kids don't think the way you do, this usually means your teachers don't think like you as well. I used to think it's purely based on the metrics of intelligence alone, but now it seems it's more to do with being on the spectrum. If you've been on the spectrum a...