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Shades of Grey

Sporadic Sparkly
over 1 year ago

Since joining this Community last year, I have seen many a mention of 'seeing things in black and white' and 'black and white thinking'. 

I would like to be corrected if I am wrong, but my understanding of this is that it means a person will perceive something to be either this or that, but cannot possibly be both things at the same time. For example, that a person may believe one can feel sadness or happiness, but not both things at the same time.

Have I got this right?

I ask because I have always thought I had the ability to see the shades of grey. Admittedly, not all the time, but certainly sometimes. However, now I find myself wondering if I know myself as well as I thought I did.

If my understanding of what seeing things in black and white means is wrong, I would be grateful if it could be explained to me in simple terms.

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  • over 1 year ago

    Rigid black and white thinking is one of the main issues of ASD.

    NT are usually able to give some nuance to their thinking. An NT would say something like "Communism is not perfect, but there are some aspects of communism that make sense and can be incorporated in a society." Same thing for religion, work practices and everything else. NT also have the ability to accept something that is not perfect, but works well enough for now until a better solution can be found.

    ASD tend to lack this skill. For them, it's everything or nothing. A religion, politic or practice is either 100% good and perfect, or 100% evil and wrong. They commit 100% to their idea, and cannot understand how anybody in his right mind can accept the opposite. I interacted with fanatics of all colours, and I suspect that many of them were just undiagnosed ASD.

  • over 1 year ago in reply to Judge Dredd
    Judge Dredd said:
    An NT would say something like "Communism is not perfect, but there are some aspects of communism that make sense and can be incorporated in a society."

    I'm not sure which NTs you're talking to, but that's pretty far from my experience. Unless someone is pretty left wing, they'll be about as likely to say that as they are to talk about how national socialism has good points. 

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  • over 1 year ago in reply to Judge Dredd
    Judge Dredd said:
    An NT would say something like "Communism is not perfect, but there are some aspects of communism that make sense and can be incorporated in a society."

    I'm not sure which NTs you're talking to, but that's pretty far from my experience. Unless someone is pretty left wing, they'll be about as likely to say that as they are to talk about how national socialism has good points. 

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