Quite prevalent and so would you be if you were concocting Algorithms every day.
Yet, at the same time, autism in its high-functioning form has also become a somewhat hopeful diagnosis.
Self-designated ‘Aspies’ tout their ability to be guided by factors other than fame and fortune; to avoid the biases that muddy ‘neurotypical’ or group thinking; and to tell the forest from the trees.
Asperger’s syndrome has been laid to rest in the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (though not yet in the international one), but in the popular imagination it has become the province of awkward boy geniuses who create our digital worlds to be, which we ‘neurotypicals’ (itself a cultural construction) fit ourselves to and swarm within.
In this turn of the biocultural screw, has become a ‘neuro-platform’ for ‘disruptive innovation’, a cultural good, and a site of identity politics.
Yet, at the same time, autism in its high-functioning form has also become a somewhat hopeful diagnosis.
Self-designated ‘Aspies’ tout their ability to be guided by factors other than fame and fortune; to avoid the biases that muddy ‘neurotypical’ or group thinking; and to tell the forest from the trees.
Asperger’s syndrome has been laid to rest in the American Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (though not yet in the international one), but in the popular imagination it has become the province of awkward boy geniuses who create our digital worlds to be, which we ‘neurotypicals’ (itself a cultural construction) fit ourselves to and swarm within.
In this turn of the biocultural screw, has become a ‘neuro-platform’ for ‘disruptive innovation’, a cultural good, and a site of identity politics.
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