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Do I have autism ?

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I have thought for several years that I am high on the autistic spectrum,

I have very few friends and dont want any, I dont find it unusual to go a week without any conversations, I find emotions annoying and pointless etc,

but I also have very low anxiety, I never get depressed or lonely, I have no fears or phobias, and I am quite happy being me.

Reading this forum it seems a lot of people are anxious or depressed,

I didnt expect that, I thought Aspie's were unemotional ?

 

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  • Interesting, personally I think people claim to understand other peoples emotions much more than they actually do.

    It reminds me of experiments into suggestion and decision making, very often when people are asked why they made a decision the explaination they give is wrong, It seems our mechanism for explaining our behaviour is seperate from the actual decision making process.

    This probably applies even more to our perception of other peoples motives, we may think we understand them but it really is very easy to fool most people, as magicians can easily demonstrate. 

    Are NT's really better at understanding people or do they just think at a more superficial level and change their minds easily when they get it wrong ?

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  • Interesting, personally I think people claim to understand other peoples emotions much more than they actually do.

    It reminds me of experiments into suggestion and decision making, very often when people are asked why they made a decision the explaination they give is wrong, It seems our mechanism for explaining our behaviour is seperate from the actual decision making process.

    This probably applies even more to our perception of other peoples motives, we may think we understand them but it really is very easy to fool most people, as magicians can easily demonstrate. 

    Are NT's really better at understanding people or do they just think at a more superficial level and change their minds easily when they get it wrong ?

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