Commom sense or book sense?

[Jimbo]

This morning my wife asked me if lack of common sense was an aspie trait. She thinks I lack common sense, but in reality I feel like I have tons of common sense and less book sense. I have a strong ability of understanding how things work and tend to see the big picture in situations. Are you more of a common sense person or more book sense?

 

[Ereth]

If lack of common sense is an Aspie trait (I don't think it is), then I guess it's one I don't have, because I possess quite a lot of common sense. And if you're calling knowledge absorbed through education "book sense," then I've got that, too.

 

[Turnip]

I think people on the spectrum are more likely to be accused of lacking common sense; and to the extent that our perspective differ's from the NT-majority we do at least going off of a definition like: "Common sense is a basic ability to perceive, understand, and judge things, which is shared by ("common to") nearly all people, and can be reasonably expected of nearly all people without any need for debate" Common sense - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I would suggest being accused of lacking common sense may just mean that the other person fails to understand your thinking on a matter implicitly.

 

[Turk]

I often get told by my wife, that my IQ was never in doubt, however my EQ, what she terms as Emotional Intelligence, is something else again.
As for common sense vs book sense, I think it depends on the subject at hand

 

[King_Oni]

I think common sense also depends on the company you're with.

There are plenty of things that I think are common sense, but my parents tend to disagree. And the same goes for being with friends. Or my girlfriend. or...

While I don't feel I'm an overly technical person, I think I have a certain degree on insight and "common sense" on the intuitive workings of machinery and more of those things. To me a lot of those things make perfect sense. So in that regard I can relate to understanding things. I haven't really spent a lot of time learning those things from books.

Book sense to me sounds a bit like "how it ought to be on paper" where common sense tends to be more like "how it works in practice".

 

[Ylva]

"Common sense" sounds like conformity, but the reasonable kind. To me, anyway. Things like war being bad and clean air being good.

If your wife accuses you of lacking it, maybe ask her what she means, as her answer is more likely to be relevant than ours?

 

[stefanos108]

If lack of common sense is an Aspie trait (I don't think it is), then I guess it's one I don't have, because I possess quite a lot of common sense. And if you're calling knowledge absorbed through education "book sense," then I've got that, too.

I rely on my wife for common sense. I can just totally miss the point. But, I can definitely contribute to an already-established train of common sense. I can be very practical at times.