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Differences between Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Software Engineers: Analyzing the 2022 Stack Overflow Survey
Pragya Verma, Marcos Vinicius Cruz, Grischa Liebel
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03840

Differences between Neurodivergent and Neurotypical Software Engineers: Analyzing the 2022 Stack Overflow Survey
Neurodiversity describes variation in brain function among people, including common conditions such as Autism spectrum disorder (ASD), Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and dyslexia. While Software Engineering (SE) literature has started to explore the experiences of neurodivergent software engineers, there is a lack of research that compares their challenges to those of neurotypical software engineers. To address this gap, we analyze existing data from the 2022 Stack Overflow De…

sister just told me i woulda gotten diagnosed with adhd instead, but my mom argued hard that i couldn't actually be socially stunted from having nobody outside the family who spoke english to regularly interact with growing up

New Guest Gist: Empires of Certainty
Dermot Casey responds to "The Age of Diagnosis" and its suggestions that there are just too many ADHD people around these days. This is the Gist.
https://www.thegist.ie/guest-gist-empires-of-certainty/

It doesn't matter if something is only temporarily helpful, by the way. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-186-10-e…

Hot take about #StarWars #Andor:
1️⃣ It requires the viewer to pay attn to, remember & think about the story's subplots & not be an ADHD idiot
2️⃣ It makes the narrative familiar but also takes it very seriously
3️⃣ It uses the SW universe exclusively to tell a story, not t…

I find the deluge of information overwhelming and things have only gotten worse with AI. Now I can produce mountains of crap using AI and then I have to sift it to see if there is anything worth saving.
I find myself always behind on working through all the information and projects I have...and if by some Herculean effort I manage to get current (this usually involves hitting the delete button repeatedly while telling myself "you'll never use that or need that again") I find myself building a mountain again with great haste!
Yes, I am fully aware I'm #neurodivergent and #adhd. Sigh.

Decision making is exhausting at the best of times, but especially if we're struggling with our executive function https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.

excellent description of executive functioning predicaments
... in a thread at Ask a Manager about ADHD.
I wouldn't recommend the whole comments section this time, because there was too much "well _I_ manage" and missing the point, but I thought this comment from "Han about town" laid out the essence of it really well. Here's a snippet on the challenge of consistently filling out timesheets:
"Monetary penalties or privileges have zero effect on the behaviour, because the behaviour is not moderated by risk, reward, or consequences. It’s moderated by how well I’m able to perform a very rote, boring, *consistent* task on a repeated basis, which is very poorly."
#ADHD #neurodivergence #ExecutiveFunction #rewards

I'm 37 years old and I finally finished a #JRPG game for the first time in my life ( #SeaOfStars ).
I like them a lot, but I often get bored of the grinding, or I have to leave it for some time and when I come back I don't remember what I was doing.
Why I managed to finish it this time? Because I had more important, stressing and boring things to do instead, and my brain demanded procrastination. #ADHD

This is the future #Republicans want for you and your children

Podcast ep 186: 10 executive dysfunction tips and tricks to help people who hoard, whether we have ADHD or are neurodivergent or not - Hoarding Awareness Week 2025 https://www.

For the past month, I have been flitting about from one project to another as my ADHD sees fit. Today, that MO has to end if I'm ever going to complete this #homelab setup.
So, in order, I have to:
* Back up all my LXC's
* Install RAM in a Mac mini
* Reinstall ProxMox with #ZFS

Everybody struggles with their executive functioning at times. Everybody does. https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-186-1…

It is only when you start searching the web for tips and tricks that your really know that program ;-)
As in:
"I love this stuff, I cannot get enough of it, I need MORE! even though I just finished every line of the manual"
Or is that just my ADHD?

We shame ourselves into more shame and it's really counterproductive https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.uk/podcast-ep-186-10-exec…

rant on software dev practices
What is it with P5js and virtually all its ecosystem (like Q5js) that, still today, didn't manage to _properly_ package their libraries to be distributed and used via package managers?
Same with their insistence to push global resources and state everywhere... and of course virtually not documenting any of the truly delicate details, just the trivial stuff that could be auto-discovered by relying on auto-complete tools.
I kind of understand wanting to keep the vanilla experience alive, making it "easy" for novices... but that shouldn't be at odds with more "professionalized" production pipelines, at least *not that much*.
For example, with Q5js:
- The NPM packages could be mentioned in their documentation (they are not, even though they are official)
- The NPM packages could define proper exports (same for the JS modules themselves), not forcing us to rely on relative paths to files in node_modules... 🤦
- Globals could be at least namespaced... of course, it would be much, much better if they didn't exist at all.
I'm writing this in 2025, not 1993... and I'm... "triggered".
At this point I'll have to check if I have any other neuro-condition beyond ADHD that makes me "obsessed" with technical flaws, because it seems to be a "me problem" when either virtually nobody sees that as a huge collection of fatal design flaws... or they see it and don't care at all.

Having non-negotiables is also a really helpful hack when you are dealing with executive dysfunction https://www.overcomecompulsivehoarding.co.

The kind of brain shortcuts I'm going to talk about today are some of the things that might just be able to help move you forward if you feel stuck or if you feel frustrated with your progress http…

I spent years in that particular trap: 'I don't understand how to fix this. I definitely can't do a good job. So why bother trying?' https://www.overcomeco…

What is #BodyDoubling and how can it help us to manage #ExecutiveDysfunction?