Juraj

True, I didn't read it. Do you mean scientists, engineers? It gives a sense while the official ratio in the whole population is irrelevant for a comparison. You can't compare it because too many of the diagnosed aspies don't work, so you can't find them in any profession (including high-tech) and there's a lot of undiagnosed (working). Also, it looks that is better to have a secret, so you don't find many of them in any company stats. To be honest, on rather of the work interviews is a very bad idea to say it (if it's not obvious) and it's illegal if an employer asks it. I study science in computer science (thus, the work on any kind of artificial intelligence is a job for me) and for 8 years, I'm in a society of programmers (partly professionally). I can recognize a programmer just by the behavior, personality, and vocabulary. Usually, they don't share characteristics of a strong Asperger's syndrome (that's rare), but it's nothing rare to see a mild syndrome that leaves them abilities to manage social interactions (that's very common), but still diagnosable because of the obsessivity, special interests, etc. If you'll mix people from MBA with CS and will try to guess who is who, it's not gonna take very long time till you really recognize minimally 6/10. ASD is one of many factors making the difference.

28 years ago, there was still a formal apartheid, or women mightn't drive cars, vote, etc just 99 years ago because were deemed as less-worth (whoever said they're idiots because the society accepted a harassment and depressions of any of their rights), and before there was even a slavery (people had given as many rights as animals). I'm happy that we've got over and it's not normal to depress the human rights of women, or Africans. Now it's not normal just because each one knows that someone defends the rights and there are still fewer people trying to brainwash the rest, still fewer people see any chance to break it. Meantime, in the society, it's absolutely normal to call aspies and people of other disorders "morons" (harass, humiliate you). We are still living in a society were anyone deemed as disabled can lose rights for information, privacy, or any other rights and be permanently harassed because none minds. It can go worse. Actually, I know a story wherein the public accepts even the non-acceptable arguments as reasonable and says like "a-ha, so then that's ok", without any proofs (just like "someone said"). On the other hand, the weight of your word isn't equal. I can see the growth in the suicide rate among the young with disorders (because they don't wait for a happy end and perhaps, some of them take too many things personally...) and because of what? I can see many more and see that is the time to take an action...

It looks that you would take a job from a lot of aspies working on AI.