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Mind blindness and Theory of Mind

I often wonder if others (Non-autistics) understand the existance of others on a level I do not.

I sometimes wonder if I do not have the capacity to experience an understanding of the minds and existance of others to the capacity non-autistics do. I cannot even begin to explain how much I anguish over this.


To me, perhaps minds are like a 5th dimension. In physics, we can understand that 5th detention can exist and we can make mathematical models of it, but humans can't ever really understand a 5th dimention. We can understand what 3 spacial dimensions are, but beyond that, it is beyond our capacity or or imaginations.

PErhaps humanity, minds, subjective perception... perhaps this is beyond my inate understanding? Perhaps I have mearly learned to process it as a factual thing, while other humans connect and live in a greater spirit of unity.

This possibility tears me up constantly. I hope against hope that's not how it is.
 
Don't worry about what other people are experiencing. Ain't relevant.

Ho could anything be more relevant? Living on an island in the great and beautiful collective kindred spirit of humanity. Having not even the capacity to be part of what makes one a member of mankind. The loneliness of an inability to grasp that anything even exists beyond oneself.
 
What's your loneliness got to do with the nature of other people's perceptions? You're just intellectualizing and romanticizing loneliness.
 

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