On Sun, 11 May 2014 11:52:18 +0100 Tom Davies <tomc...@gmail.com> wrote:
[snip] > > On a side-issue ... > The ones where Urmas does help are often highly technical. That > raises the question of whether Urmas is a dev and just socially > clumsy as so many are. Apparently Microsoft have recognised that > many engineers and devs have "high functioning" aspergers syndrome > or, even further along the spectrum, autism ... [snip] Asperger Syndrome (it's properly capitalized) is often referred-to as "functional autism." In any event: Yes, in the IT world it is quite common for technically talented people to exhibit impaired social skills. It's usually not intentional. Such people are simply wired in such a manner that social skills that are second nature to "normal" people are, quite simply, incomprehensible to them. Good examples of these are the TV show characters Dr. Gregory House, Dr. Sheldon Cooper and Dr. Martin Ellingham ("Doc Martin"). These characters are all portrayed as being brilliant in their fields, but socially inept to the point of being widely regarded as rude and unfeeling. (These characters portray behavioural extremes, but they are, after all, actors, and it is, after all, entertainment.) Such people can learn, to a degree, to work within commonly accepted social norms, but they will never, ever understand the *need* to do so, other than that failing to do so may have (potentially) adverse consequences. This is not to excuse behaviour clearly out-of-bounds, but more to explain the reality that, in a venue such as this, you're going to encounter such people. The only way to stop it entirely is to encourage them to go away. Then what are you left with? Who will answer your questions and solve your problems? The likes of telephone sanitizers, hairstylists, advertising executives and lawyers? ;) Regards, Jim -- Note: My mail server employs *very* aggressive anti-spam filtering. If you reply to this email and your email is rejected, please accept my apologies and let me know via my web form at <http://jimsun.LinxNet.com/contact/scform.php>. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted