Re: OT: The Geek defense

On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 11:43:17 +1300, "Pete Dashwood"
<dashwood@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> much snipped including the poster for the incidence of autism in
children of Microsoft employees 
>
>>For
>> example, the incidence of autism in the children of Microsoft employees
is
>> so high that MSFT has a special program for autistic children (geeks
>> breeding with geeks).
>
>Please cite a source for such an appalling claim. It may be that the 
>incidence of autism amongst the children of MS employees is no higher
than 
>it is amongst IBM employees or any other company, but MS have applied
their 
>substantial resorces to the welfare of their staff, better than some
other 
>companies.

The statement about children of Microsoft employees came from a Wired
magazine article (that was available online) on autism and Aspbergers.
As someone who poured over train schedules to the point of effectively
memorizing quite a few of the train times, I related to the whole
article.  I also scored borderline Aspberger on the Wired test.
>
>Pete.

Clark Morris