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InfinityMan

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I'm 70 years of age. I am an Aspie. I was diagnosed as an Aspie.

I am glad to be here to share and learn.

I am retired. I live with my wife and two Chihuahua dogs who are my friends.

I will be happy to chat with others about their experiences.
 
Hi @InfinityMan, I am close to you in age, not formally diagnosed (what is the point at my age) but I now know who I am. I am also (notionally) retired - I worked as an academic so still hold an adjunct appointment, co-supervise students, co-author academic papers, and participate in research projects. There are quite a few of us from the age when our autism “wasn’t a thing”, so I expect you will find plenty of people to talk to. Welcome!
 
Nice to meet you AuAL. Yes, your right, about it not being a thing in days gone by. When I was young, the only thing that kept me out of an institution was my mother. I was seen as retarded. Slow. People just didn't know what we know today. The way to change behavior in those days was corporal punishments. Forth grade was the worst. I spent that grade getting paddled by Mrs. Browning for being disruptive, slow, not listening, interruption, not paying attention, and "being funny". She had a paddle just for me and insisted that I sign it every time she used it on me. Lol. I never did figure out what that lady had against me. Then. In those days, if you were "disciplined" in school and your dad found out, you were also "disciplined" at home. Mercilessly - especially when the report card came home. Boy! Those were the days. My mother would not let me fail. She insisted that I be just as normal as all the other kids. As a freshman in high school, I was sent to the grade school to tutor other "retarded" kids in reading. That was fun. I got through it all, and to my surprise discovered that I was gifted at nothing much but coding computer automation. What we now call AI. I wrote wonderful applications for very large corporations (mckesson, citibank, american express, safeway, American Stores, common spirit health) to use computers to manage all the other computers in large data centers. That was my career, and I was good at that, winning several technology awards. I never have figured out people, nor the minutia of everyday life, but I like being retired and gardening, and I'm loving the AI revolution.
 
Greetings. 67 here. Was also called retarded and spaz.

Not for being "slow" - I was always in the advanced classes - but because I was dyspraxic, and therefore worse than useless at sports. And of course, sports was the most crucial life skill - at least according to the other kids.

While computer programming was never my main career, I gravitated to it and have never gotten away from it. Also retired now. So busy, it's hard to imagine how I ever found time to work 40 hours a week.

I hope you enjoy your time here. There's good peeps here.
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Nice to meet you Jumpinbare. Thanks. Yes. I never could do sports. The other kids just seemed to understand all the rules and methods to excel. I never got it. In later years, I understood baseball pretty well, but that's about it.
 
It would be extremely interesting if you decide to start a post on AI. There is so much speculation on where we are heading down that turnpike. Are we going to lose thousands of jobs, how can corporate America generate revenue in the longterm, and all the other unanswered questions.
 
Aspychata said:
It would be extremely interesting if you decide to start a post on AI. There is so much speculation on where we are heading down that turnpike. Are we going to lose thousands of jobs, how can corporate America generate revenue in the longterm, and all the other unanswered questions.
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Okay. I can give you my viewpoint, but no one knows 100%. All tech can be used by mankind both for good and for evil. The main thing is that our Bible says over and over again: FEAR NOT! So I'm not afraid of the future because God is in control. To me, AI is akin to when the automobile replaced horses and carriages. When that occurred there were people who were displaced from jobs they had been doing... but as it turned out, there were new jobs created: manufacturing automobiles, sewing the apolstory, making tires, making rims, making headlights, being the mechanic. My view is that this is the same kind of thing that's going to occur with robotics and AI. yes there will be people displaced but someone has to maintain things, provide oversight, provide input, and so on. I believe AI is going to help mankind far more than hurt. There is ROI there. AI can free mankind from doing repetitive work, allowing us to focus on serving others, colonizing other worlds, creating new ideas and directions, and solving problems. I think laws will be passed to govern AI. Perhaps AI agents will become government contracts negotiators / compliance monitors, corruption monitoring and efficiency watchdogs. AI will certainly be used to help colonize other planets. AI can help do more of what Dr. Norman Borlaug did in the 20th century to feed people (see Green Revolution). Perhaps in some cases AI becomes like the main library reference desk. It's almost a given that governments are going to want a government certified AI to become the purveyor of societal "truth" which can be used to adjudicate conflicting information. AI may also be used to help appropriately sentence convicted criminals and monitor parole. Who knows, but it will be exciting and our children and grandchildren will live in a completely different world than we have. The future: Food will be created in labs and then after that matures, food replicators will become normal. That food will have no diseases in it. It will have no bad pathogens or bad bacteria,and will be the same on a cellular level as our food is today; except cleaner and fresher. Fusion power will replace everything we have today generating electrical power. It will be plentiful with no one on the planet being without power. We in the u.s. are already building one of the first fusion power generating plants in Virginia I think. It was announced oh a few months ago. Anyway, that's what I think about AI and some of our future. REFERENCE: December- Governor Glenn Youngkin Announces World’s First Commercial Fusion Power Plant | Governor.Virginia.gov

A 100 year journey into the future. A podcast I recently listened to on YouTube:
 
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Fascinating perspective, things l definitely hadn't thought about. You might want to create a post on this as there are many programmers, and computer techs at this forum.
 
Ronald Zeeman said:
Same age as you, I found out in my mid 50's when did you figure it out. For me it explained everything.
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Very glad you discovered who you are from and ASD standpoint. Funny thing... with me, I was diagnosed when I was 50. I was evaluated by two different phycologists. They gave me tests and observed me in interview sessions. I went to them initially because no matter how hard I tried, I am not able to speak in front of a group of people. It disturbed me and fills me with fear and meltdowns. Well, they were not able to help me solve my fear of public speaking, but, in the process, they asked a lot of questions and after hearing my answers, and reviewing my history, they suggested strongly that this is what I am. An Aspie. A high functioning person on the ASD (spectrum). I then devoured all the info I could, and by golly. It WAS me! They gave me a couple of more tests and a hypnosis session and then officially diagnosed it. A whole new world opened up which sometimes made me sad, sometimes made me happy, but mainly gave me a new perspective about why I am as I am. And like you... for me it explained everything and I thanked God for it.
 
I always thought my issues were caused by bad luck. Once I diagnosed myself spent so much time overcoming this bad luck had decent education, that made me a real expert. plus my special abilities were a real combination.
 
In my life I've only been tested once by a professional psychologist, that was a position 32 years ago after I obtained a position, she tested me I asked one question on the abstract reasoning part of the test did any one evet get a perfect score. She retorted back not even close with a quizzical look. I wrote the test She said pencil down i was on the last question on the abstract reasoning part of the test. I knew the answer but put the pencil down. She phoned me a few weeks later, her voice quavered she used words like incredible never seen nothing like it in her career. I think I got ever question on the abstract reasoning part of the test correct. except for the last one. She was stunned.
I was just chatting with her before the test out of curiosity. Her reaction in turn stunned me. I always knew I was good at solving puzzles not game puzzles rather real life puzzles. See my previous posts and you will understand.
 
Ronald Zeeman said:
In my life I've only been tested once by a professional psychologist, that was a position 32 years ago after I obtained a position, she tested me I asked one question on the abstract reasoning part of the test did any one evet get a perfect score. She retorted back not even close with a quizzical look. I wrote the test She said pencil down i was on the last question on the abstract reasoning part of the test. I knew the answer but put the pencil down. She phoned me a few weeks later, her voice quavered she used words like incredible never seen nothing like it in her career. I think I got ever question on the abstract reasoning part of the test correct. except for the last one. She was stunned.
I was just chatting with her before the test out of curiosity. Her reaction in turn stunned me. I always knew I was good at solving puzzles not game puzzles rather real life puzzles. See my previous posts and you will understand.
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Great that you took the time to complete the test. Great outcome.
 
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