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[–] 14 points 14 hours ago (5 children)

Since when did this become an autistic trait? I joined the school computer club when I was 14. It started that year with a single IBM PC. We did not load Linux because it didn't exist for another decade otherwise I'm sure we would have. I have to believe that kind of curiosity and learning still exists without one needing to be autistic. Then again, under current diagnostics for autism, we might all have been on the spectrum since we were all geeks on some level.

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  • I did my first programming on a mainframe with punch cards, then migrated to a TI-59. At some point I was typing little games into my friend's VIC-20, and then I got to take my first real programming class in 9th grade using an Apple IIe. I'm not autistic at all, just nerdy as fuck.

    I still have the TI-59, buried in a box somewhere.

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