http://xahlee.org/PageTwo_dir/Personal_dir/xah.html
There doesn't seem to have been a deep bench for his support team for a very long time, if ever.
When I went to school in Gainesville, there was a saying: No matter how weird you are, there are a bunch of people who are weirder. The internet is that at scale. Thirty years ago, Xah would probably not have known people who he could identify with or that anyone identifies with him. The internet gets some people out of their isolation. It lets them talk about things that they find interesting or that matter.
I don't talk programming languages with the locals. The appropriate topics are children, church, and Auburn football - which runs from National Signing Day in February to the BCS in January.
And some kind of help is the kind of help we all can do without
- Shel Silverstein
Just, please, be careful in categorically deciding which is which.
Help from anonymous strangers can save lives. The flip side is that the potential for harm is greater than the aid of a professional or friend.
It's so tightly coupled to the scenario (nature vs nurture) that efforts to argue are probably futile.