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Er. For example, it is really hard to communicate here without being totally literal! And people don't get my jokes!:-)
I wasn't complaining. I was trying to point out that the risk of being discriminated against for having Aspergers Syndrome here was very low given the high number of autism spectrum commenters here and the general climate of the site. I thought I was making a humorous point about the uniqueness of Less Wrong, like "We're so different from the rest of the internet; we discriminate against neurotypicals! Take that rest of the world!" while also sort of engaging in collective self-mockery "Less Wrong is a really autistic place."
I really hope the upvotes are from people who chuckled, and not sympathy for an oppressed minority (in any case I'm like a 26 on the Baron-Cohen quiz).
Sorry if I alarmed anyone. *Facepalm
I did chuckle, actually, but that's not mutually exclusive with it being a true statement that I haven't previously noticed the truth of. It's better to check than to assume, per my values. :)
I upvoted due to chuckling, because it contains a nugget of truth.
I don't believe that neurotypicals are oppressed here, but I can certainly see that NTs would feel marginalised in the same way that auts can feel marginalised in normal social scenes.
I probably go below 26 on the baron-cohen test sometimes (I normally lie at 31, but recent bout of depression has had me at ~38) but if so, I've never taken it at such a time (well, I wouldn't expect to, I'd be too busy socialising)
I got that you may have been making a joke, but I wasn't sure how much truth was behind it. Now that I know it was a joke, I do find it funny.