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Negative Feedback Loop

Undiagnosed4321

What do you guys make of a Negative Feedback Loop?

Is this a common thing to get bogged down in Negative thinking, for one thing to happen which sends you down in a negative spiral, where you can't see the positives and just focus on the negatives and it makes you worse and worse?

Or is that another disorder?

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  • In my experience, I do think it stems from having a default negative interpretation of events that we can't comprehend.  For those of us with poorer social comprehension, there's too much which goes unexplained when we interact with people - so our minds are desperate to plug the gaps in our knowledge, which for most people are filled by the social cues that an autistic person might miss.  I feel like it's a force that drives me to have absolute certainty in all things, even when rationally I know that isn't possible.

    The changing interpretations come about because of this ambiguity, I think.  There are often many, many different ways to explain the same situation, so my mind tries to consider every single interpretation in infinite detail - hoping that the correct interpretation will jump out at me when I stumble accross it.  Just when I think I have found the right interpretation, doubt strikes again, and yet another scenario presents itself for consideration.

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  • In my experience, I do think it stems from having a default negative interpretation of events that we can't comprehend.  For those of us with poorer social comprehension, there's too much which goes unexplained when we interact with people - so our minds are desperate to plug the gaps in our knowledge, which for most people are filled by the social cues that an autistic person might miss.  I feel like it's a force that drives me to have absolute certainty in all things, even when rationally I know that isn't possible.

    The changing interpretations come about because of this ambiguity, I think.  There are often many, many different ways to explain the same situation, so my mind tries to consider every single interpretation in infinite detail - hoping that the correct interpretation will jump out at me when I stumble accross it.  Just when I think I have found the right interpretation, doubt strikes again, and yet another scenario presents itself for consideration.

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