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CrazyCatLord
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27 Jan 2012, 11:51 am

Phonic wrote:
Seeing purpose behind purely coincedental and explainable events is called teleolgoical thinking, it is superstitous, magical, paranormal dribble, and autistic people are less likely to have such thinking, thank f**k.


^ This.

Paranoid schizophrenics are especially "good" at seeing a purpose behind just about everything. All events are connected, nothing happens by accident, everything is a sign or a message or a clue that someone is out to get them. Deeply religious people are often exactly the same. I don't understand how that's a good and "normal" thing.



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27 Jan 2012, 12:08 pm

so_subtly_strange wrote:
what event? what do you mean by purpose? what is the purpose of purpose?


I see you did that on purpose. I can see why.



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27 Jan 2012, 12:19 pm

TheygoMew wrote:
Often the real difference is, autistics come up with multiple ideas of what is going on, why it's happening. You get lost in all of these reasons or ideas where as alot of people come up with a conclusion quickly even if it's wrong and stick with it.


This.

This is made worse when a social group all knows something, and assumes that therefore you, the outsider, must know it as well. I had that experience today.



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27 Jan 2012, 1:31 pm

Like how I don't see the purpose behind Thanksgiving (other than celebrating turkey), Christmas (other than celebrating commercialism), or Halloween (other than celebrating candy and fear)?

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Crap, no.

Yeah, things just happen because of people's decisions. I am usually able to deduce why something happened purely because of how someone acted or by the personality of someone who was involved with the incident.



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27 Jan 2012, 1:39 pm

I dont see the purpose here



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27 Jan 2012, 3:28 pm

I too am unable to see purpose behind events, such as freak incidents and other tragedies. It just seems the product of a merciless universe, indifferent to a living thing's plight.

I've talked to some NTs about this, like "why did such and such happen to this person?" and they said "it must have happened for a reason" or "God has a purpose." I have a hard time buying this explanation for senseless events.

Perhaps Aspies as a whole don't feel as connected to others as NTs do and hence don't see such a benevolent reason for certain events happening. Events just happen (cause and effect); it doesn't seem like there is a particular purpose for them occurring.