In all the flame-wars since 1991, I have never pulled out the fact I'm a academia book company #TechnicalEditor and how I got hired, by criticizing an author who came to visit my hot rod computer shop in northern Indiana - where IBM operating system innovations appears out of nowhere. #IBMOS2Ambassador party lifetime!
LIke we could pull out our registered card numbers of being TECHNICAL about things!
These were like $70 books in 1990 $.
I kid you not, I had no idea about autism in 1985. I was high on hormones wanting to kiss a girl like any other kid (my Lutheran church had overnight sleepovers that was coed, how progressive can you be? Got some kissing and hugging in at 14! )
LIke a simple basement room with like 30 kids. Listen to songs, play some teenage games. #WakeIndraTeenageDreams
Do you remember Y2K? I was on he Paul Allen Y2K consulting team, I was it. Before I got fired and escorted out some moths before Y2K...
Autism, I didn't find out about autism and autism burnout until divorce in 2008 2009 time... in 1999 I had no clue. And Paul Allen had autism, but I never remember anyone talking about what it was. Rain Man I guess was what we knew of he word, and Paul Allen wasn't that at all.
I got drunk at a company function and got fired from SAP
Mental stability has never proven my best. I ran away from home at 16 because my parents thought I was using drugs, I wasn't using drugs.
they were going to commit me to drug rehab, seriously.
They couldn't understand how someone so talented with computers and social media radio was doing so poorly in school with grades....
... the sensory overload in school ... noise, 25+ kids talking around me, hormones, autism.
I never used drugs or drank and they were going to put me in 30 days of drug rehab. I ran away from home with my car at 16 for a week, came back home, and my parents never sent me to rehab.
Autism teen years clueless
what absolutely turned my academic life around was sex.
Losing my verity and having a long-term live-in girlfriend at 17 (she was 18 or 19, in college) absolutely turned my life around.
All my social problems went away when I had sex 3 or more times a week at age 17! I started kicking ass with my life.
Before that, I flunked high school classes and had to summer school. My parents even pulled me out of public school and put me in a private Catholic school because of grades / failing.
I was not a Catholic, I was a Lutheran. This set off my 1986 autism even worse. But hey...
What turned it around? 1987, sexual intercourse and a woman who says "I love you" to you for years and moves in with you!
That is what balanced out my autism, sex, hugs, backrubs, shows together, fun. I was WAY more social and happy.
Love and Compassion are good things, humanity should try them!
RoundSparrow 🐦