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That one co-worker/manager/director who gets on your tits daily but you just have to sort of put up with it.
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There's this one programmer kid at my work who is definitely on the spectrum. He's 19, quit school at 16, this is his first ever job.

Because he's on the spectrum, he doesn't handle change, confrontation or unexpected events well at all. I inadvertently caused him to go into a full meltdown last week because I asked him to make an update but it wasn't part of his plan for that day, but rather than tell me this he just went into another room and cried and got very upset for about an hour.

Additionally he doesn't have the capacity to pick up on social queues, so you could be in a meeting and he will interupt the CEO like every 30 seconds with a question about something incredibly specific. E.g. CEO will say "We're looking to get this rolled out in 2 weeks time" and then he'll interject with "By roll out I assume you mean we're going to make the new features listed on sprint 1.4 live? Also what date do you mean?" and if he doesn't get a specific answer to that, he becomes incredibly unhappy. Naturally he doesn't get invited to many meetings, and gets very upset when he realises that also.

None of that's really his fault, but on top of that he's really super cocky, and has no concept of doing as he's told. I guess the only reason he has a job in this role is because he is a good coder.

I feel like a bit of a dick for being annoyed at him but he makes everything more difficult than it would be otherwise.
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