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On 9/19/2024 2:18 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> On 9/19/2024 12:15 PM, BGB wrote:
>> On 9/19/2024 2:04 AM, Robert Finch wrote:
>>> On 2024-09-18 10:30 p.m., BGB wrote:
>>>> On 9/18/2024 2:29 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>>>>> On 9/18/2024 1:13 AM, David Brown wrote:
>>>>>> On 17/09/2024 20:18, MitchAlsup1 wrote:
>>>>>>> On Tue, 17 Sep 2024 16:32:35 +0000, Bill Findlay wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 17 Sep 2024, Stefan Monnier wrote
>>>>>>>> (in article<jwvmsk6i6uc.fsf-monnier+comp.arch@gnu.org>):
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> With all respect to the regulars here, most people in 
>>>>>>>>>> technical Usenet
>>>>>>>>>> groups are either old, unusually nerdy, or both.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> I plead guilty to nerdy, but as for old, I'm still 27 (and 
>>>>>>>>> that's been
>>>>>>>>> true for more than 20 years).
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> Stefan
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi Stefan!
>>>>>>>> At least equally nerdy, I should think, but 50 years older.
>>>>>>>> (Older, not old!)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> At 71 real years old I still operate as if I were <let's say> 21.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> You are not 71, you are merely 0x47 :-)
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> LOL! :^)
>>>>
>>>> Not going to say my exact age, but if I wrote my age in hex I could 
>>>> almost try to pass myself off as an early Zoomer (rather than as a 
>>>> millennial...).
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>> I think I am early GenX. 59 and still learning loads of stuff.
>>> Old enough to remember tube TVs and radios. Transistorized pocket 
>>> radio were a big thing.
>>>
>>
>> In my case, my childhood was mostly in the era of Win 3.x and Win 9x 
>> PCs, and early dial-up internet (unlike most Zoomers, I remember a 
>> time before YouTube).
> 
> [...]
> 
> I remember way back wrt compuserve. :^)
> 

Don't remember which ISP it was.
At the time, I remember parent's PC was mostly using the Netscape web 
browser (was a PC with a 486 and Windows 3.1).

This was my first real exposure to computers.

Some of the school computers were 386 based and running Windows 3.0.

In elementary school, the teachers mostly just let me poke around on the 
computers, as at the time, I could read well enough to generally make my 
way around MS-DOS and figure out QBasic. Early on, most of the other 
people were seemingly unable to read, so the teachers were more intent 
on showing them letters and simple words, but didn't bother with me.

Before elementary school, was mostly messing around with the NES, and 
messing around with cheats in the Game Genie. Seemingly I had learned 
how to read and speak at roughly the same time ("hyperlexia").


But, in most other areas of life, I kinda suck.
   Generally not good at being self-sufficient;
   Not really able to understand either "social nuance" or emotions;
   ...

Decided not to go too much into it, but based on subjective experience, 
I suspect I fall outside the scope of a "typical" person with autism.

But, I suspect it may be the case that it may actually be more of an 
umbrella terms capturing a range of different sub-conditions, more 
reflecting on some similar aspects of presentation (narrow interests, 
lack of social skills, etc); regardless of the subjective experiences or 
internal difficulties that lead to those presentations.

Well, deciding at the moment not to go too much more into this.

....