tralsla's comments

Also to add nothing wrong with video games, I can't do woess very well but what I mean is they tend to have some 'identifier' that they're proud to not be like all the 'normal peoplw'

I don't have any quirky interests. I like trash TV and doing my nails. Somehow that's not acceptable

I agree... But also the online 'hacker community' (whatever that means) IME tended to be filled with people supposedly 'outside' social norms. Even the 'straight white males' are of the slightly socially awkward video gaming variety. Not your erm generic ones. And they are all obsessive over stuff.

Almost put me off when I was considering careers but people in real life are much more diverse with a variety of interest. And they don't live/breathe/eat code.

I'm an autistic woman with ADHD but because my interests are typically girly people don't believe it...

Works both ways though. If you bring your identity into something irrelevant I'm gonna assume it's because you don't know what you're doing.

I'm not saying that people should judge by profile pic or website colour. But I see my peers who spend most of their time at diversity events, winning 'diversity awards' getting promoted over people like me, who are doing the actual work.

Am female, bi, neurodiverse but none of that is my entire identity so much that I need to plaster it everywhere.