fiddlerpianist wrote:
It's funny. If the OP had posted with the subject line of: "Do I have AS?" I bet that most people would say "Maybe, but probably not given how mild you sound."
And that's very interesting, isn't it? It's obviously some kind of "contrarian" impulse (if you will), but is this something with a link to AS? Some kind of predisposition? Or is it simply a normal statistical subset of the general population? Or perhaps this is in all of us, but AS makes it more likely to manifest sort of like when the ocean receeds from a large rock. You can see the rock if the ocean is low, but not if the ocean is high. AS in this analogy would be like being at permanent low-tide where you can always see the rock.
The stranger thing is that once these opinions form, the individual truly espouses them completely. I notice I do this same thing too! There is no halfway. Once the judgment is made, it is completely unshakable in one direction unless completely derailed by something incontrovertable. Then it typically swings to the other extreme at full 100%.
These are the kinds of things I love to study too! To try to learn more about myself and about the underlying nature of humanity. To make myself a better person if I can. For example, the thought tangent inspired by this thread makes me want to examine some of my 'unshakable truths' and see if I can accept some 'gray areas' and some compromises.