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To be fair, there are jobs where it is informally a requirement. They just don't come right out and say it. In fact, they may not even know themselves that they are effectively screening positively for Autism.
Find me a software engineer who isn't autistic I fucking dare you
There's a lot, and the cishet white male ones are (often) making the tech space a worse place. The rest are usually fine
That's dangerous rhetoric.
Musk approved autism supremacists.
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Apparently, NSA and NRO like people with anxiety disorders because they are more risk-averse, suspicious, pessimistic and paranoid, and these things are useful when you're trying to identify chemical weapons sites and missile silos from satellite imagery or rapidly evaluate the purpose of unexpected network traffic.