08.22.04
The State of the Onion 8
From Larry Wall’s The State of the Onion 8:
“One of the aspects of my Asperger personality is that I don’t initiate things like that. I have impaired executive function, in modern terminology. I almost never initiate telephone calls. I almost never initiate anything, in fact. Funny, considering Perl, but nevertheless true.
“The most telling example of that is when Deja first put up all the old Usenet news articles for browsing. My good friend Randal Schwartz went in and discovered that of the hundreds of articles I’d posted over the years, only one article was not a follow-up to some else’s article. I don’t initiate. I have no initiative. I guess that makes me lazy. Oh, well”
To everyone who has ever wondered why I never call, here’s part of the answer I think. I’ll need to read up on this “Asperger” thing some more.