Comment by iwontberude

5 hours ago

So many nerds here in Silicon Valley love to fly small aircraft, it’s an autistic comorbidity. You’ll never catch me acting so foolish.

"autistic comorbidity"

Wtf haha. Everything's autism nowadays isn't it.

Perhaps it's just an alignment of having the money to buy a small plane and being interested in planes.

When/where I grew up (the United States), private planes were thought of as auto-un-aliving machines for Doctors and Dentists.

Boomers and older generations tended to think of them as part of rural life. E.g. farmers would sometimes put an airstrip on a spare field. There's an episode of Mayberry (The Andy Griffith Show) in which Aunt Bea gets her pilots license.