I had difficulty containing anger, watching that video.
While I consistently score well into
definitive AS territory on tests, and am
believed to be on the spectrum by my PCP and my "~therapist~"
, I recognized some of those thinking patterns as problematic
as a child, and largely corrected(masked?) them.
First:B+W thinking---
an answer, or solution to a posit or question can possibly be definitive, or, B+W,
but the perception of the query can never be. As a young child, I easily recognized that
NOTHING is B+W, All is shades of grey.
Rule-bound thinking---
It is various degrees of R-B T that allow us to progress.
without adhering theory to the laws of physics, what could we observe or extrapolate accurately?
If someone suggested that, in a certain instance, that something could be true because gravitational laws did not apply there, what wild flights of fancy could skew our perceptions? It is only by comparison to known constants that we progress.
Truth-Bound Thinking---
It always behooves one to speak truth...
or not at all. In rare few occasions, it may be necessary to deceive,
temporarily, to prevent
destructive thought, action, or both, but it then also behooves us to correct such, at our earliest safe ability to do so.
Truth IS important.
Would
you wish to believe something untrue, because of it's comfort, or fit, or your desire(s)?
Nothing says that truth must be told in a cold, tactless way. Except shock-jocks.
If it is true but possibly difficult for someone to accept, go
gently forward, but forward nonetheless.
I am ever aware of the likely, or even unknown thoughts of others---
sometimes too eerily prescient for their comfort.
Perseverant Thinking---
Anyone who has difficulty staying on topic because of "too many questions" on or related to one subject is the deficient party.
ADD and ADHD leap to mind.
(Absolutely no offense intended here,
for sufferers of these maladies.)
If you raise a subject, be prepared to
explain, qualify, quantify, and defend
your assertions.
Concentration is an ability, a talent or skill.
Because you do not have it does not make
me defective.
If your son, daughter, or some other immediate family member had a peculiar disease, would rudimentary knowledge satisfy you, or would you wish to know everything possible so as to avoid dangers and promote best case scenarios?
Because the fickle "flow" of emotives' conversation may have "moved on", does not mean that my curiosity has been sated.
This particular trick has been used by tricksters and hucksters throughout all of recorded history--- the presumed establishment of falsehood as fact, then move along quickly to avoid detection and set the hook. No. No, no, no.
Not this cat. I'm not the one.
Either you know, and can prove, or you do not, and cannot. I will judge.
Avoiding exploring/explaining a topic you started leads me to predisposition about your professed sincerity or knowledge.
Sorry. Prove it. Or, at least, make a case for the inability to disprove it.
Rigid-Thinking---
An example of this is the american custom of washing eggs.
In europe, eggs are not washed upon collection and so, do not have to be refrigerated. They sit on dry shelves beside bread.
Are you telling me that the predominantly NT society that we americans inhabit are not using rigid thinking("omg they have to be clean!")?
How many billions of dollars have been wasted(at great cost to the earth, I might add) on egg refrigeration since inception of the practice?
I have been able to greatly temper this tendency, as outcome, collateral effect, cost, efficiency, time, and a myriad of other collective factors may determine success, failure, or feasibility.
As an aspie, do I have to be dense, rigid, and simple?
Perfectionist-Thinking---
This also can be tempered, with practice,
and it is the drive to perfect that, again, drives progress.
For me, it was the (almost instant) realization that "perfection" can be attained by degrees.
Every time you wash that burnt pan, scrub a little better, or shine another black spot.
After several, or many washes, it will not look the same.
Accept progress, if perfection is not possible. Simple.
Catastrophic-Thinking---
This is similar to perfectionist thinking---
with very similar mediation measures.
*side note---
Are emotives able to empathize?
I will apologize here, and now.
Without exploring more fully, I
cannot describe more fully why this particular video pi... ...eeved me so.
I suppose that it seems to belittle the
counterintuitive and monumental difficulties I have struggled with, with varying degrees of success.
I also realize that an individual created this video--- I absolutely do not wish to disparage, discourage, or detract from the individual's journey, or perception thereof.
All right.
There it is.
Do with me as you will.