@grimmyImportant pieces have been missed here. This isn't just about "open source culture", but our ENTIRE culture. And it's not just unhealthy for people who are neurodivergent, it's unhealthy for EVERYONE. The output of a genius in hyperfocused and manic state should NOT be held up as a standard to expect everyone to strive for. And it should not be what everyone is expected to compete with, when the value of a healthy person's sustainable labor is set against the unpaid passion and undiagnosed strain of frantic and constant burnout. The drugs and other weirdness people get exposed to in high intensity "success" can land them in situations worse than death. "Open source culture celebrates intensity. It celebrates the all-night hack session, the prolific contributor, the person who maintains fifty projects and keynotes ten conferences a year. What it doesn't celebrate, what it actively looks away from, is what that intensity does to people who are wired differently. And a lot of us are wired differently. That's why we're here in the first place."