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We love to joke about being autistic bitcoiners, but this is a very real thing for some of us.

Being a bitcoiner who has never read the white paper is an example of this. I love learning, especially on my own, but the hardest way for me to learn is through a technical piece of writing. It doesn't matter how "easy" it is for *you* to understand. It's never easy when you're actually autistic.

And yet, I started to grasp bitcoin by early 2012, after a few months of using it. I tried reading the white paper a few times during those early months, but it didn't make sense. So I gave up and went back to using bitcoin, earning bitcoin, and talking about bitcoin. THAT made sense.

The white paper is a very important part of bitcoin history, worthy of celebrating. I have it hanging on my wall. Maybe one day I'll read it.

Probably not.

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Konstantine 1y ago

Did this make your flight training particularly difficult? it seems like it would.

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Mandrik 1y ago

Oh it absolutely did. My instructor had to figure out ways to teach me things. Many times his standard methods of teaching simply did not work, but he never blamed me. He just adjusted!

Fantastic teacher!

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ElectronicsQuestions 1y ago

Quality approval, both of you yourself and of the system adapting to you. I could imagine many bureaucracy systems just saying plain no if you don't fit their cookie-cutter model.

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