Dave Plummer

I'm like, no, I know what you said, and I'm not being just combative here.

I literally only know what you said, and I don't have that.

And, uh, I remember we've been in meetings with people and, uh, you know, there's three or four people in the meeting and I'm the only autistic person.

I'll tell that they've got this communication loop going on.

And I feel like you can't go to tell me what's going on.

Cause I really don't know what's being said here.

Yeah, my very first summer at Microsoft, when I got the internship, Bill had all the interns over.

I guess it was 20 or maybe 25 of us that got hired that year over to his house for burgers and beers and just chatting in the backyard.

And of course, it's still Bill Gates, and he's a big enough deal even then that you're a little nervous.

And so my manager, Ben, who was sort of my mentor at the time, took me over to introduce me to Bill because he knew him.

And he's explaining, this is Dave.

He's our intern from Canada.

And in the space of four months, he's done this feature and just copying smart driving, listed off all the stuff I was doing.

But I stopped because I'm like, well, actually, it was three months.

I had to interrupt them.

And they both kind of, what?

And they looked at each other.

And I realized that was the wrong time to correct the guy.

But yeah.

Yeah, I'm much better than I used to be before I didn't know.