Freedom of thought. Why do people never ask WHY?

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The only way that this factors into the Aspie VS NT thing is because some aspies are not afraid to ask why? And the way alot of aspies minds work drives them to figure stuff out. It is mearly a side effect. It is not because aspies are actually any better than NTs. Its not really about that. There is also ALOT of aspies who are just like NTs in the way they accept things as they are and never ask why?.

Hmm - and I thought I'd have no energy to do this again today...


The whole problem in my perception of this is that there is never an acknowledgement of an NT's ability to ask questions. You do say that neither is better than the other, but I took this to mean something similar to, "Some Aspies, unlike NTs, are capable of questioning the world around them, but this does not make them better; it's just a side effect." I realize this is not what you meant, but it kinda looks like it (to me).

This can really get political pretty quickly, but I think it has to do with a combination of a person's personality and their intelligence. There is probably a higher percentage of free thinkers within the Aspie population simply because, almost as a rule, Aspies have above average intelligence.

I wasn't trying to say you were contradicting your other post, by the way, if you thought that. I was trying to say that the paragraph I cited here is self-contradictory and contradictory to the rest of your post in seeming to suggest - in the presence of the effectively meaningless (to me), "It doesn't make Aspies better ..." when interpreting it this way - that no NTs ask questions about things that happen. The contradiction would be that, in that paragraph, you (seem to) mark that they have less ability than Aspies (aka Aspies are better). One might argue that, in this situation, while Aspies have the ability to question why things happen, NTs have other abilities and that evens them out so it's not a contradiction, but my POINT is that it's simply not true that only Aspies can ask such questions, whether or not such an exclusive ability would make them superior. And there's no need to reply defensively, MindOfOrderedChaos, because I know now that's not what you meant. So you don't need to prove it; you already have. And I think people do know what you mean, MindOfOrderedChaos. I guess, regardless of how many mistakes I make myself, sometimes I get confused by semantics.