Is riding carts autism or just being a kid for life? I still do this and DOS was my first OS...

How do the bears exit the cart corral?

Is that really a rule, or more of a suggestion?

Spent a few minutes researching because I was almost sure it was just measuring resistance but that is different depending on materials.

They measure moisture by using a scale of wood equivalent moisture. Basically no matter what you stick it in, the pins measure resistance across the probes and give a number as an equivalent reading for sticking them in wood that is wet. Apparently wood is pretty consistent about resistance regardless ofof what type of wood it is. And since American houses are primarily made of wood, we only care about how wet the wood in a home could be.

How curious is the average person about the inner workings of a phone while using one? Most of the time people just need to know how to use tools, rather than the specifics of how they work.

I once was doing some it support trainee work on some education facility. Their old it manager retired while i was there and whole it support thing was outsourced to some external company. They probably knew their shit well enough but still i had to explain some things about office 365 to them (i hadnt even used 365 properly before that ) and i felt that i knew some things better than them. Yet they were the ones getting paid.

They were probably better qualified to do the job in general, but still in my opinion some random trainee shouldnt know more about anything than PAID professional who is supposed to take care of everything. Though I also head from them that they are quite well worked and have to work on MANY sites and basically are not allowed to make mistakes, so maybe there was that too. Seemed really stressful to work for that company.

Ignore that guy. I agree, that sounds like black magic fuckery and I need an explanation.

And I've found that most people do not care, they just want marching orders. Like, I'm not here to give you orders. This is what the goal is, this is how it's currently done, this is why we do it that way. They want to commit "how it's currently done" to rote memory.

And then the first (and second, and third, etc) time something does not go as planned, they're stopped in their tracks. Context was rejected, preventing understanding, leaving little framework for the unexpected.

So they ask me to tell him how to fix it. Well, I don't know how to fix it. This hasn't happened before. I do not have a step by step committed to memory. But I can probably figure it out if you give me a few minutes. There, should be good now.

"Jeez, I didn't want you to do it for me, why can't you just tell me how to do it?"

Bit thanks for doing that, I tend to ignore rules completely when there's no reason given (or I think the reason is bs).

Mhm

…Right?

Imagine if they put in the why into the memo. But no, just do what you're told, yeah.

I have a hard time believing its not everyone because it makes zero sense to me why you wouldnt think through something critically.

"You cant do that, its not normal!"

It's also unlikely to apply to all neurodivergent people, so I don't know why it was phrased that way.

Couldn't agree more. I do not follow arbitrary rules unless compelled to, as long as it doesn't harm anyone or anything. If you want me to do something, there needs to be a logical reason for me to do it

Yeah, I've noticed a real problem on here with that. Claiming neurodivergency for something that some people do and some people don't.

This is a trait that some people have. Some people do it more and some do it less. If it's combined with many other symptoms and it makes it difficult for someone to function in society then it might be grounds for a diagnosis.

I think things like this are also just representative of a general shift in society. There's a lot more education online and elsewhere about the power dynamics in society that might have been ignored or not understood in the past. So this behavior is more prevalent which coincides with an increase in neurodivergency even though those two things aren't actually correlated.

Plenty of stupid unethical rules have detailed explanations.

Yeah I agree.

I'm autistic, have a sense of justice being the result of reasonable clear fair and as objective as possible rules being consistently followed...

... but you don't need to be autistic to adhere to that. You can be ethical, moral, hold yourself to a standard, determine the reasonability of said standard, without being autistic.

Also... neurodivergence is more broad than just autism.

ADHD is a form of neurodivergence. On its own, I don't see that as being inherently relevant to rule comprehension, consideration or adherence, beyond maybe more complex rules or contingent rulesets taking more effort/exposure/practice to understand, consider or adhere to.

Schizophrenics are neurodivergent. Their ruleset often frequently changes considerably, due to reasons they often cannot explain coherently, and/or the rules they'll tell you they follow can be incoherent/contradictory.

DID is a form of neurodivergence. Each different identity often has its own significantly distinct ruleset / approach to rules.

Being bipolar is arguably a form of neurodivergence. Such people essentially have two rulesets that they alternate between.

No

WTF is wrong with this thread.

No. Intentionally breaking rules just because you don't understand their existence is not a sign of ethical thinking or intelligence.

Are you questioning the rule?

This is not exclusive to autistic people at all.

I'm in camp "not diagnosed but something ain't braining."

I'm right there with you, but what would be the point of acquiring the label be, too?

I mean, I've made it this far without the label.

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