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tangerinesubmerine t1_jcmfodt wrote

Reply to comment by ethan52695 in Entrepreneur with autism inspiring others with pretzel business by stopwastingmymoneyl1

Autistic person here. Sure, deficiency is part of autism. But autism is a grab bag, a whole spectrum of presentation. Some things we do worse than neurotypicals, some things we do better, depending on the individual. For instance the idea that autistic people make better scientists, engineers and programmers is widespread within those communities, and in fact it can even be harder to find a job in those fields if you are not autistic. But an inspirational article about a non-autistic person becoming a scientist would feel odd, wouldn't it? Maybe even a little patronizing?

I'm not saying autism is without it's downsides, or that we're better than neurotypicals, or even that some autistic people don't feel wholly disabled by their condition. In fact I'm sure this article might even be inspirational for some autistic people. But in that same vein, I think it's understandable that things of this nature ruffle some peoples feathers.

Everyone has different preferences, I know. But personally, if I ever started a business I would feel quite insulted to see an article like this.

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MississippiJoel t1_jcm9d0m wrote

Reply to comment by Slowpoke135 in FCC orders phone companies to block scam text messages by QuantumFork

So, I used to get a whole bunch. I have certain tricks.

For one, and I don't know if maybe I filled out some form with fake information on the Internet or what, but the scammers all have the name Newell Johnson attached to my (20 year old) phone number. So whenever they would ask for Mr Johnson, I was on their game right away.

When I found out about the bot Lenny (r/itslenny if you don't know), I would always ask them to hold and then for those to him.

The number of calls seemed to triple in a month.

Well then when I got tired of it, I started saying he had passed away.

The number of calls went down to nearly zero overnight after just one or two cases.

So, that tells me they are all using the same active server or some sort of centralized list they are sharing.

Nowadays, I always answer with a business greeting. Whenever a live person comes on the line, I always act like I'm taking notes. They ask me a screening question, and I just say okay. Then they forward me to the valuable people whose time they don't like to waste, and I say "well hi, Mr X. Pleased to speak with you, my name is u/MississippiJoel of company Y. How are you doing today?"

"Is this a business? Click."

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