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Best HR interview I've ever failed at.https://twitter.com/LogicSupply/status/1044252344551178240 …
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Interviewed with HR for a job. Follow up with them on what I could improve lead directly to me deciding to get an autism diagnosis. Only company that ever spent the time to help me like that, and I applied to many.
I’m curious about autism.. ignorant mostly.. is it a spectrum type “disorder” diagnosed by checking x amount of boxes, or actually a real thing? I’m incredibly skeptical of modern medical practices.
Diagnostic I went to to get tested as an adult took 6 hours and involved quite a bit of differential checks. The diagnostic label is classically a black-box applied to a set of symptoms, but we're slowly teasing out various causes. Mine seems to be this: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014299915003982 …
There were a lot of checkboxes; I took like 3 different questionnaires and even had to get a close friend to do one even before I was examined directly. I had to have my girlfriend help me fill it out - something like 1500 questions IIRC.
There are bunch of things that express with autism-like symptoms though. The big one I thought was interesting was a test to see bilateral coordination and muscle use that was meant to check a brain hemorrhaging condition.
They had me do the 'name as many animals as you can' thing from phenomena and it made me giggle. I started listing off animals from cryptozoology because they didn't specify they had to be real. No one ever said Sasquatch before apparently
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHDSNs9wBpU …
Not sure if you ever read Eliade’s “Shamanism” but I found it fascinating how shamanic tribes incorporated every person into the tribe. Their role in the tribe was based on their mental situation. This modern idea that there are “unwell” people, is a truly terrible meme.
Thats the perspective I take on all of this stuff -> that societies framing of 'neurodivergence as disease' is the wrong lens. More that the support networks we used to have for variation don't exist anymore, and traditions that helped are ignored or lost.https://twitter.com/ultimape/status/790067842989383680 …
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