> The world outside is sort of hostile to hackers !
Thank you for bringing up this important subject. I would like to expand on this concept in that compared to so-called "normal people", hackers are enabled in certain ways and less-enabled in others. From my personal experience, human behaviour often does not make sense and I find myself at a loss as to how to interact appropriately. There seems to be some type of underlying protocol in which you are expected to respond in a prescribed manner, and if you don't then it eventually leads to social rejection behaviours such as bullying, teasing, ridicule or people passively giving you the silent treatment. Most people seem to know the protocol without having to learn it, but in my case, a good amount of effort was required before I was able to map out the structure and parameters of the protocol.
Research shows that limitations in social interaction have more to do with the hardware of the brain rather than education, learning or the "software" of the brain. Or in other words, it is a type of physical disability. Our society has put a good amount of resources into accommodating people with physical disabilities but unfortunately has left people with my type of disability out in the cold. Often I find that instead of people offering assistance with my disability I encounter the type of social rejection behaviors mentioned earlier.
In fact you can even observe social rejection behaviors occurring in the Sudo Room Discussion List, where people put up posts describing some sort of interaction which they unilaterally deem inappropriate and thus feel justified in broadcasting it to everyone along with demands for everybody to participate in social ostracism. I can see how some people may even have reservations about going to places like Sudo Room because it is not really a "Safe Space" for people with certain types of social disabilities.