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leejosepho
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20 Dec 2010, 3:57 pm
20 Dec 2010, 4:15 pm
My question is....
Is it really a "disorder" if you have earned the title of "engineer"? 
leejosepho
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20 Dec 2010, 4:20 pm
kfisherx wrote:
My question is....
Is it really a "disorder" if you have earned the title of "engineer"?
Is it really a "disorder" if you have earned the title of "engineer"?
Being an engineer or doctor or lawyer or whatever else would not prove a presence of emotional or social intelligence or "order".
20 Dec 2010, 4:25 pm
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To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1)things that need to be fixed, and (2)things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
No engineer looks at a television remote control without wondering what it would take to turn it into a stun gun. No engineer can take a shower without wondering if some sort of Teflon coating would make showering unnecessary. To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimized and feature-poor toys.
No engineer looks at a television remote control without wondering what it would take to turn it into a stun gun. No engineer can take a shower without wondering if some sort of Teflon coating would make showering unnecessary. To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimized and feature-poor toys.
*looks down at my jailbroken iPhone on which I'm currently installing a Java runtime environment and my iPod touch which is running a hacked version of Android*
Nah, I don't fit that description at all...
20 Dec 2010, 4:27 pm
20 Dec 2010, 4:28 pm
20 Dec 2010, 4:47 pm
Asp-Z wrote:
Quote:
To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1)things that need to be fixed, and (2)things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
No engineer looks at a television remote control without wondering what it would take to turn it into a stun gun. No engineer can take a shower without wondering if some sort of Teflon coating would make showering unnecessary. To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimized and feature-poor toys.
No engineer looks at a television remote control without wondering what it would take to turn it into a stun gun. No engineer can take a shower without wondering if some sort of Teflon coating would make showering unnecessary. To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimized and feature-poor toys.
*looks down at my jailbroken iPhone on which I'm currently installing a Java runtime environment and my iPod touch which is running a hacked version of Android*
Nah, I don't fit that description at all...
Guilty of both... Now quit bothering me... I gotta write some code. Bwaaa Haaa Haaa
20 Dec 2010, 4:49 pm
20 Dec 2010, 4:50 pm
kfisherx wrote:
Asp-Z wrote:
Quote:
To the engineer, all matter in the universe can be placed into one of two categories: (1)things that need to be fixed, and (2)things that will need to be fixed after you've had a few minutes to play with them. Engineers like to solve problems. If there are no problems handily available, they will create their own problems. Normal people don't understand this concept; they believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
No engineer looks at a television remote control without wondering what it would take to turn it into a stun gun. No engineer can take a shower without wondering if some sort of Teflon coating would make showering unnecessary. To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimized and feature-poor toys.
No engineer looks at a television remote control without wondering what it would take to turn it into a stun gun. No engineer can take a shower without wondering if some sort of Teflon coating would make showering unnecessary. To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of sub-optimized and feature-poor toys.
*looks down at my jailbroken iPhone on which I'm currently installing a Java runtime environment and my iPod touch which is running a hacked version of Android*
Nah, I don't fit that description at all...
Guilty of both... Now quit bothering me... I gotta write some code. Bwaaa Haaa Haaa
*looks up from my HTC Desire HD on which I'm flashing the new CyanogenMod 6 nightly build*
Sorry, what? I was busy
20 Dec 2010, 5:49 pm
20 Dec 2010, 9:37 pm
20 Dec 2010, 9:42 pm
20 Dec 2010, 11:25 pm
kfisherx wrote:
My question is....
Is it really a "disorder" if you have earned the title of "engineer"?
Well, actually, it still is. Just because you're good at something doesn't mean you can't possibly be disabled.
Is it really a "disorder" if you have earned the title of "engineer"?
It all comes back to the stereotype of disability meaning that you're horrible at everything, in all ways inferior, that there can't be any positive aspects to it and it can never give you an advantage in any way. But that's not true. Put a blind guy and a seeing guy in a dark room and you'll see who's better off. Well, an engineering lab is a lot like that dark room to many techie Aspies. That it can be an advantage doesn't mean that it's not a disability, but in order to see the full picture we've got to re-evaluate the incorrect assumptions we make about disability and competence in general.
20 Dec 2010, 11:42 pm
