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The fine line between needing to be social and needing solitude.

Goatworshiper

Does anyone else have problems with this balancing act? If not I'm just getting this off my chest.

I feel odd when I'm with people, without being insulting towards other humans I find they frustrate the life out of me. I find people just don't really have much valid to say. At the moment I'm sick of hearing people being demonised for claiming benifits, by people who claim working tax credits, child tax credits etc. I'm not in a position were I personally need to claim benifits, however I'm not into the demonisation of the ill and unemployed. It's not only this issue, people just being wide of the mark on lots of topics, science denialist's tend to be particulary frustrating.

I'd like to get on with people a lot more, I enjoy being social (within my small circle of friends). But I just find people stupid, ignorant and inhumane. I'm generally misanthropic and tend to upset people quite frequently by telling them that human life is cheap and explaining about a history of slave labour, concentration camps etc. Well I say upset, I think it just annoys people as It questions thier humanitarian ideals. I suppose thier lies my problem, hypocritical humanist whom don't see that they treat humans particulary badly. For instance they want to save the world and help African children, but have a poor attitude to work colleages.

I went to Auschwitz recently and people seem perplexed that I didn't get upset from the visit. I find it very odd: when I here people talking about how they think other people should be dealt with for not working (and not conforming to thier belief system), I can easily see how something as big as Nazi Germany could escalate. I find it so odd that people think that work is the only important thing in life. Surely there has to be more to life than self regulated slavery?

Today I cut my grass with mp3 player on and it was just bliss. Solitude and the world blanked out.

Wierdly, I still crave some social activities even tho people frustrate the life out of me. 

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  • Yes, because I am not a particularly emotional person, I tend to see things in a more logical way, guided by intellectual reasoning, not emotion. I am sure many other people with AS would agree. Although coming to different opinions and view-points, as shown on this forum, our opinions are often formed by logical deduction, and less so by emotion.

    Patriotism, for example, is something I just don't understand. I am fond of my country, but my affection is similar to that displayed by an animal: routine, habit and familiarity. I am not 'proud' to be British - a concept I cannot understand, too abstract and emotional. I am not a team-player, so find it hard to support a particular team, although I find it easier to support individuals. 'Britishness' is an abstract, emotional concept which does not make logical sense.

    Hitler and the *** did disgusting things. But they were not 'evil' - an emotional, metaphysical concept. They were human-beings operating in a particular context. Nazism could have taken off in the UK if the context were different. Germany lost the war, was crippled and punished by the war guilt clause, suffered a massive financial collapse,  and was not used to democracy. All these factors plus  a history of Eugenicist thinking (Britain, by the way, also had a history of Eugenics, as did the USA - sterilisation was introduced for the mentally ill in the 1920s), contributed to Nazism.

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  • Yes, because I am not a particularly emotional person, I tend to see things in a more logical way, guided by intellectual reasoning, not emotion. I am sure many other people with AS would agree. Although coming to different opinions and view-points, as shown on this forum, our opinions are often formed by logical deduction, and less so by emotion.

    Patriotism, for example, is something I just don't understand. I am fond of my country, but my affection is similar to that displayed by an animal: routine, habit and familiarity. I am not 'proud' to be British - a concept I cannot understand, too abstract and emotional. I am not a team-player, so find it hard to support a particular team, although I find it easier to support individuals. 'Britishness' is an abstract, emotional concept which does not make logical sense.

    Hitler and the *** did disgusting things. But they were not 'evil' - an emotional, metaphysical concept. They were human-beings operating in a particular context. Nazism could have taken off in the UK if the context were different. Germany lost the war, was crippled and punished by the war guilt clause, suffered a massive financial collapse,  and was not used to democracy. All these factors plus  a history of Eugenicist thinking (Britain, by the way, also had a history of Eugenics, as did the USA - sterilisation was introduced for the mentally ill in the 1920s), contributed to Nazism.

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