Tirbes, are you tribal?

Unfortunately, all humans are tribal. We can't escape it as it's part of our nature. There is strength in numbers and everyone does have an internal need to feel a sense of belonging. As infants, we would die if abandoned (this is not true for other animals). Think of this in reverse impact: rejection can create a great deal of psychological trauma as a consequence.

The issue isn't black and white, but to what degree one can withstand not Belonging. 

To feel secure or grounded in more extreme isolation might actually be a Natural Ability - to the degree that most people in our Typical population are potentially disabled. Jung wrote a great deal on his concept of The Mask, which is actually this "intuitive blending in" with everyone else, and the concept also includes: 1. the inability to remove this mask without years or decades of emotional work and 2. the external mask as the more true and unique self. Behind it is an individual who is connected into (or disintegrating into) a collective consciousness. Hard-wired in, as it were, without choice or knowledge. And apparently, in psychology, there is a strong agreement that the Wire (one cannot break from) is an unshakable sense of guilt and indebtedness (not gratitude, but literally, in-debt).

Autistics will always be on the margins for not having this particular 'wiring' which dominates the Neuro-Typical experience, and is most likely at the heart of the structure polarising Autistic from Non-Autistic perceiving, reasoning and understanding: Tribal belonging. This is the bias behind the double empathy problem, as well. 

Apparently this is part of strengthened left-brain 'wiring' for social linguistics. It's connected to Language (language can be music, gestures, all kinds of expression, not just mouth words). It's often been discussed as being 'encoded' into human thinking. Take the collective consciousness a step further: collective thought. A neurologist has found that in a group effort, brain waves sync up. Autistics "appear" to think outside-the-box for, basically - not being wired on the Neurotypical "radio frequency". 

There have always existed variations of differences. Jung invented the personality archetypes as a way to help bridge misunderstanding. However, this particular difference is probably the most misunderstood. Not feeling a sense of telepathy in a room, but having to synthetically evaluate and work out conscious ways to fit in. I do believe there is an evolutionary purpose, but one needs to grow in wisdom when they don't have an automatic sense of 'being too connected' to everyone else. 

It's human to need to Belong and one can do just as much good with that desire as bad. We form tribes in small family units, in community groups and in Countries. Even capitalistic ventures use branding to create affiliations and a 'false' sense of tribal belonging to sell their products... tribes are everywhere. The upside to Autism is we can literally pick where we'd like to invest our time. 

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I want to add, NTs don't necessarily 'go along' with orders blindly or ignorantly. Being wired the way they are simply implies a different way of thinking which prioritises the social collective, the group outweighs anything else- I genuinely see it as a human nature element, which also needs wisdom to notice when it's all gone horribly wrong. There is a strong chance 99% of us who are autistic here, might not sacrifice a "truth" for the sake of the group when it really matters, but we're not special LOL - we're just not wired the same way. 

Unfortunately, all humans are tribal. We can't escape it as it's part of our nature. There is strength in numbers and everyone does have an internal need to feel a sense of belonging. As infants, we would die if abandoned (this is not true for other animals). Think of this in reverse impact: rejection can create a great deal of psychological trauma as a consequence.

The issue isn't black and white, but to what degree one can withstand not Belonging. 

To feel secure or grounded in more extreme isolation might actually be a Natural Ability - to the degree that most people in our Typical population are potentially disabled. Jung wrote a great deal on his concept of The Mask, which is actually this "intuitive blending in" with everyone else, and the concept also includes: 1. the inability to remove this mask without years or decades of emotional work and 2. the external mask as the more true and unique self. Behind it is an individual who is connected into (or disintegrating into) a collective consciousness. Hard-wired in, as it were, without choice or knowledge. And apparently, in psychology, there is a strong agreement that the Wire (one cannot break from) is an unshakable sense of guilt and indebtedness (not gratitude, but literally, in-debt).

Autistics will always be on the margins for not having this particular 'wiring' which dominates the Neuro-Typical experience, and is most likely at the heart of the structure polarising Autistic from Non-Autistic perceiving, reasoning and understanding: Tribal belonging. This is the bias behind the double empathy problem, as well. 

Apparently this is part of strengthened left-brain 'wiring' for social linguistics. It's connected to Language (language can be music, gestures, all kinds of expression, not just mouth words). It's often been discussed as being 'encoded' into human thinking. Take the collective consciousness a step further: collective thought. A neurologist has found that in a group effort, brain waves sync up. Autistics "appear" to think outside-the-box for, basically - not being wired on the Neurotypical "radio frequency". 

There have always existed variations of differences. Jung invented the personality archetypes as a way to help bridge misunderstanding. However, this particular difference is probably the most misunderstood. Not feeling a sense of telepathy in a room, but having to synthetically evaluate and work out conscious ways to fit in. I do believe there is an evolutionary purpose, but one needs to grow in wisdom when they don't have an automatic sense of 'being too connected' to everyone else. 

It's human to need to Belong and one can do just as much good with that desire as bad. We form tribes in small family units, in community groups and in Countries. Even capitalistic ventures use branding to create affiliations and a 'false' sense of tribal belonging to sell their products... tribes are everywhere. The upside to Autism is we can literally pick where we'd like to invest our time. 

_____

I want to add, NTs don't necessarily 'go along' with orders blindly or ignorantly. Being wired the way they are simply implies a different way of thinking which prioritises the social collective, the group outweighs anything else- I genuinely see it as a human nature element, which also needs wisdom to notice when it's all gone horribly wrong. There is a strong chance 99% of us who are autistic here, might not sacrifice a "truth" for the sake of the group when it really matters, but we're not special LOL - we're just not wired the same way.