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ASPartOfMe
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14 Jul 2015, 2:17 pm

OliveOilMom wrote:
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Faking being an NT can't make you an NT but it can make you think you are one.


I thought I was one until I found out I had AS. Although faking it is second nature and my default setting by now, and I wouldn't know how to not fake it if I tried. So that would be faking it. I guess I just got more control over it, instead of losing it. I can control my symptoms most of the time now I suppose.


That is how it worked for me until I had "Autistic Burnout" and then it didn't. An being diagnosed not with "mild" but with "moderate-severe" Aspergers lead to the revelation I was not faking it as well as I thought.

Faking it to make it is not automatically bad. Not knowing you are faking it is bad. I still have not untangled all of this mess yet. Sometimes I still can't distinguished between my learned behaviors/added skill and faking it.


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14 Jul 2015, 5:23 pm

I love these replies guys


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16 Jul 2015, 12:20 am

I wish I could hypnotize myself, but I'm kinda hyper sometimes, so doctors have had little success.


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16 Jul 2015, 1:14 am

SocOfAutism wrote:
starfox wrote:
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Herman wrote:
Collective belief can also draw you away from the truth. Majority of people believe/perceive a truth based on popular opinion and acceptability. Autistic people have traits that allow them to see things for what they are even when they maybe in major conflict with plausibility or popular thought.

But overall its important to remember all that anyone has is perception and a mental view based on that perception. These are quite removed from reality, none of us can truly observe reality... certainly not in real time.


I'm a sociologist. I study autism, but I also study the social construction of reality and a phenomenon called cognitive dissonance. Personally and professionally I believe what Herman said is absolutely true.


I'm just wondering, if this is really so does that mean right and wrong is subjective and doesn't completely exist really? It seems different places around the world all have entirely different social norms.


Right and wrong, when you get down to it, are social constructs, which are abstract thoughts. If you're asking if abstract thought "exists," that depends on what you mean by "existence."


I second that.
One of my favourite quote from abraham lincoln "There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one."