It’s how some technical people are generally. It always kept me from spending time in tech spaces even though I was always interested. It’s no excuse to be autistic because plenty of autistic people don’t rip your head off for not understanding concepts.

Stack overflow is great for learning from posts that are marked as duplicate! I’ve learned the most from those lol

I would ask if the poster is someone who came to lemmy and started mass posting immediately.

Back in the late 90s when people started saying that to me, I’d just say ok, get naked RIGHT NOW. What, now you’ve got something to hide?

A few people took me seriously from that but it usually just fell short.