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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36030969
https://archived.moe/g/thread/93632944/linux-graphics-stack-is-trans (EDIT: removed/jannied, archive: https://archived.moe/g/thread/93632944/)
HN users are noticing 
something:
« I’m on the board overseeing Linux graphics. Half of us are trans »
From a purely statistical POV, this is absurdly bizarre.
Not really.
Statistically there will be weird coincidences completely naturally. It's also quite arbitrary which we see as meaningful. If say, Linux networking has unusually many people called "John" that probably will be unnoticed because nobody pays that much attention to common, unremarkable names. If they all randomly turn out to have green eyes, then that's more visible. It's completely subjective which of those is more remarkable.
There are also likely social effects -- people stick together, and some side interests align with some fields. Eg, I think it's reasonable to guess there's going to be more furries than average in VR development. Part because VR allow you to look like whatever you want a lot of the time, part because people will invite their friends in.
It is not just a random coincidence. It's a phenomenon more broadly across programming, especially very low-level/hardware stuff.
There does seem to be a correlation between autism spectrum and gender confusion, with the former often present in individuals who are into highly technical pursuits.
The logic seems to be not conforming to masculine stereotypes ==> must be a woman.
It's not "gender confusion". They know very well who they are. You are confused about the topic.
Meanwhile on /g/:
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It's so fricking obvious that neurodivergent trans people are just autists fixating on social roles they don't understand because they're not supposed to be neatly defined. It's crazy that no one with authority has stepped in to tell them that they're over thinking it.
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online discourse devastated by the use of 'over thinking' as a concept instead of others you disagree with being misguided in what they think about, as if amount is the problem, and there's some weird stopping point they are shooting past, its horrible
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There is legit such a thing as over thinking. There are fuzzy concepts that should be used as a not too examine heuristic or it breaks down. You genuinely miss the forest for the trees often and it's something autists are more liable than neurotypicals to do.
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It's become a catch all for "people that do things that I don't understand" and the need to express some specific condition can't be worth the collateral damage of "Everyone is just overthinking shit and they should chill out"
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No need for collateral, we can't neuter entire concepts because they are sometimes used irresponsibly.
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How about about 90% of the time including when you used it
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I used it correctly. Neurodivergents over think gender, it's why they go trans. They think there is significantly more tham there is and they end up wrapping their identify around the fixation.
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His fixation on that word and not on what you actually said is pretty neurodivergent in of itself, ironically.
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You are overthinking it.
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I appreciate you doing the needful Sal
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