Optimism and Reality: Goldfish21 Response to me

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One might not be able to make it into the NBA.

But one could achieve success in many other ways other than the extremes of being in professional sports.

No, we don't have the same opportunities---but we can be resourceful and CREATE them.

Sounds like someone needs to go to the beach for a little reality check and a refill on optimism inducing vitamin D.

edit: It's crystal clear that you don't believe what I tell you, and not just about one topic, either. I post something, and you respond with "what I think is really going on is this.." Um, no. You don't get to tell me the way my life is any more than I get to make things up and tell you the way your life is. I certainly don't post anything like "EzraS treatments don't actually work for him, he just thinks they do," or "I don't think EzraS is nonverbal, what I think is really going on here is that he's just shy and refusing to speak," because I accept that what you post here and disclose about your Autism & your life is actually the way things are for you. Now perhaps you can begin to comprehend how absurd it is for you (and others who have done this recently - namely RainbowUnion) to come up with "alternative facts," to how my life really is as if I'm incapable of perceiving & expressing it myself.

I do hope you get to the beach for some Blue Space this Summer. I think it would do you (and anyone) a lot of good. Then perhaps you could be a little more optimistic about others also telling their truth vs. thinking they're lying to the extent that you have to come up with alternate theories of how you think their lives really are. As some quote from some movie goes: "Go West, young man." Like all the way to the Pacific. Take a break on the sand, soak up some Sun, watch the birds fly around, listen to the waves crashing.. think clearer & feel better.

The difference is I have experts saying how the treatments they prescribe for me are working and why I'm nonverbal etc, rather than me coming up with it all on my own. As for blue space I live on a peninsula and can see the ocean from my window, I'm out on the beach all the time. However I don't imagine everyone else out there are friends of mine. If I recall correctly you post about drinking alcohol and smoking weed frequently, so that might explain a few things.

When I was younger I smoked weed. It has bad effects on me.

Whether good or bad effects, alcohol and cannabis usually alters a person's mood and perception. And if one is at some event where everyone is intoxicated, then they are probably quite friendly with each other at the time.

Weed can cause paranoia in certain people.

Theses 15. Positivism has this underlying assumption that one can overcome the law of supply and demand. Example: Can everyone who dreams to be in the NFL or the NBA actually do that? No, it is because there are only a limited amount of teams and positions for each team? How many people who dreamed of becoming an astronaut actually both worked hard for it and actually achieved it? How many astronauts exist currently?

Theses 16. Corollary to These 15. Positivism denies one's reality.

But what if positivism defines one’s reality? What if 100% of the very few people who are astronauts became what they are because of who they are - someone who’s innately & automatically practiced positivism their entire lives?