Lack of common sense

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My favourite characters were jughead and hotdog....from the jarhead clan

I have a question before I answer the poll - do you think “lacking common sense” is the same as “being naive”? Or is it more lacking an ability to deal with other human beings?
You seem to identify it as being oblivious to the obvious - not “seeing and processing” what is obvious to everyone else. I find the google definitions to be confusing.
Also, I kind of thought either you were born with common sense or you weren’t. Hadn’t heard it was a learned skill.

einstein thought that common sense was basically one's accumulated ignorance up to the age of majority.

I read anything I could get my hands on. Fiction, non fiction, comics, magazines, newspapers, encyclopedias. If there was a book in a room I'd read it.

I was always called the "voice of reason" by my friends and peers. This wasn't always a good thing though. I had trouble understanding my peers as teenagers especially. Not sure if they called me that as a kind of backhanded insult or not.

Not sure if that means I have common sense because I find what's supposed to be common sense isn't actually that common; at least in my experience.

I think with anything though, the more knowledge you acquire the better.

I'm not sure there's a connection between reading fiction and acquiring common sense. Reading itself has a positive impact on overall intelligence and imagination. Common sense is acquired, imo, by doing what others do and finding the positive results thereof.

i've never to my recollection been able to learn from how other people do things, but i do learn from their mistakes most of the time.

Maybe that's the definition of uncommon sense, then:

NOT doing what others are doing, and avoiding the negative effects thereof.

^^^yeh, you get it allen funt [RIP] had a PhD in experimental psychology, a lot of folk didn't know that [his sister did also], which is why he filmed and taped so many of his social behavior experiments on his show "Candid Camera" - one of his classic experiments was to have some actors playing "real people" line up on one side of an elevator as it traversed the levels of a building, and to see if his subjects would ape the actors or refuse to conform. i would have been the one who refused to conform, and possibly either saved myself from disaster or exclusively doomed myself. either way i did it my way

"Fiction" can a totally realistic story that includes details of life that never show up in biographies, or it can be a wild fantasy that gives you impossible expectations. Sometimes Science Fiction is very unreliable about physics, but uses those situations to illustrate very human reactions to them. The first book I remember, read by my mother, was in that class. I read a wide mix, and learned a lot from magazines about tech.
I know without being told that I lack common sense around people, but have so much understanding around machines that it is uncommon.

I used to read lots of fiction... but never had a lot of common sense.
I think the books did help me a bit in understanding people, in the sense of giving me a bit of a guide to normal speech and reactions.
They probably helped me learn how to mask my AS.
I only got diagnosed a few years ago.

I suspect books would be much more useful for this than comics.
In comics, the speech and reactions can be way off what's normal in the real world but in books they can sometimes be roughly correct.

I've heard of Australian autistics who learnt social stuff from movies and now speak with a permanent US accent.

Didn't had a lot of fictional stuff as a child. Closest I got was whatever was in TV, and did not dived too much to it except for info sake. Competing with other kids knowledge and trends about it with little regard with anything else.

Didn't had a lot of non-fiction stuff either. It's either not very accessible or that my reading comprehension couldn't let me appreciate it.
All I got then are my own hands, my feet, eyes and whatever mood was in play with wherever I'm currently at.

It doesn't 'help' that I'm more of a willful risk taker, or that I laugh at a lot of things one may ought to catastrophize after repeated enough times.
I'm just not stupid or unlucky enough to get myself killed, maimed or involved in wrong places.

Didn't grew up feeling lonely or alone. Nor socially unfulfilled. Nor am not 'exposed' enough.

I can be so pragmatic, be serious and mature.

... And still usually don't have a lot of common sense.

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