Published on 12, July, 2020
Can autistic people have a tendency to cut other people out of their lives if they negatively impact their autistic tendencies (and so appearing very hardhearted to outside observers) . Does this result from black/white thinking, over emphasis of rules and a strong need to have people in their lives who are predictable and minimise uncertainty in their own lives.
I have in many ways. I havent ripped any family out yet. I am ruthless about it outside of my family. I also dont expend any energy on meaningless interactions with people unless it has some benefit to me. I dont really care what others do, as long as it has no impact on me. I guess that would make me ruthless. But I realised some time back that it was draining trying to micromanage other peoples affairs and lives when i quite frankly didnt give a ***.
Maybe I will change again, but for now its not likely to happen.