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Ever since the ai bubble started I realised that data was always human... He just didn't believed in himself because he never met another autist.
Which is wild because he hung out with engineers all the time and his best friend was an engineer. I'm an engineer with audhd and no joke I'm pretty sure like 90% of the engineers I work with are some form of neurodivergent. I know for a fact for like half of them because they told me.
I think often the same about people in my it field.
But yeah engineer are usually more chill people. Maybe I should change the field :D
He wasn't human. He had flashing lights inside his head; humans don't have that. He always had emotions, though, but the humans of the 24th century were so intolerant of anything that diverged from their self-professed ideal that they wouldn't acknowledge them.
Okay sorry wrong wording because English inst my main language.
I mean he always wanted to know how it is to be human / think as a human?
But your post reminds me that i still want to read "The Bicentennial Man" from asimov :)