I dropped out of college years ago and have no credentials. However, all the self proclaimed autodidacts I’ve met are :so-true: bazinga brains with deep rooted conservative :brainworms: who love :melon-musk:
The virgin autodidact :wojak-nooo:
The self taught chad :soviet-chad:
Capital-R "Rationalist" bootlickers of billionaires aside (that tend to call themselves "autodidacts" and have contempt for peer-reviewed academia while worshipping quacks and cranks like Sam Harris or Big Yud), saying "I am an autodidact" as a self-identifier is just about the same thing as saying "I am a genius" but with additional "but I don't believe in peer review or academic rigor because I'm too smart for that."
Most are probably fine, but I think the ones who make a big point of how they are autodidacts are usually also the really annoying kind; like the kind of people who have superficial knowledge of a number of subjects and thinks that makes them a genius, the person who reads the Wikipedia page on a topic and thinks they know all there is to know about it, etc. For example, one tends to run into the "philosophy guy" who has read (and misunderstood) something by Nietzsche or whatever and now thinks they have ethics completely figured out or who just reads a bunch of weird medieval latin stuff, accepting all of their proofs for god's existence without looking into the thousand years of critiques of these or how modern logic impacts them, etc. As bad as school can be sometimes, somebody taking some undergrad philosophy classes is going to gain a broader understanding of the subject than this. (Although, sadly, some people still manage to make it through an entire program still pretty "philosophy guy" brained).
Being self taught in something is well and good but just about every self described "autodidact" I've seen or heard of has been a right wing crank with a grift going on, or a fanboy of the same.
I'm gonna assume that's as opposed to someone with degrees.
And imo it's usually because they're fundamentally insecure and part of their identity is credentialism, which makes it so that condescension is a valid coping mechanism.
Because people who "do their own research" think shit like essential oils cure cancer and vaccines cause autism
Because they were the worst enemies in Halo 4. The design was bad, they were annoying to fight, and they weren't even that original.
