IT People Have Asperger Tendencies?

This article (click here) is really kind of a duh for people like me, who are utterly bathed in technology work.

It doesn't specifically address tech people as having Asperger's, but the tendencies it describes seem to be VERY common among people who fit into the server room and they are tendencies that seem to be fairly common with Aspies. I'm just saying there's overlap. Not that you're an Aspie if you work in technology.

The article is pointing out how (among other things) tech people value logic and reason over social graces; they'd rather work for a curmudgeon who's right than a pleasant but incompetent person.

My first thought: "Duh."

It's true that incompetence means more work is created by well meaning but incompetent people. We don't want to go back and redo things. We don't like the idea that there's "never time to do it right but there's time to redo it later". Getting things right in an efficient way is valued; this is something that is really overlooked by management more often than not.

I also thought it was interesting that the editorial brought up that when techies complain, it's part of their respect. They are expressing their opinion, their experience, and when it's "managed" out of them to express these ideas they stop telling their managers why something is a stupid idea. Managers..."normals"...think they're doing a good job of making you more pleasant. In reality, it fosters contempt and is a sign of disrespect (from the techie) because now their boss, manager, supervisor, idiot coworker, isn't worth sharing information with. It's another reason for the job to a rut where the techie feels they aren't valued.

It was an interesting read that I wish more of our users would read and understand...