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I believe the detail-oriented point is not entirely true for all autistic people as I have seen various autists have polar opposite strengths/weaknesses, which include being dominantly big-picture-oriented. It is true for me, though.

As a programmer/Gentoo user, abstraction in code is frustrating to me, thus I tend to go into rabbit holes attempting to understand every single function that is obscured from me, which has led me to wasting a lot of time tinkering and debugging to accomplish very simple tasks all because I wanted to use a very specific toolset or feature. It's difficult for me to accept the big picture idea if I cannot explain some vague anomaly that isn't documented and only discoverable in the source code of the program or one of its dependencies.

I am really happy to see Tristram Oaten (NoBoilerplate) not negating the importance of collective action in this video even though the video is more self-help focused. I also enjoy his narrator voice, and I love his Lost Terminal podcast and his educational programming content.