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Kirstie04
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22 Dec 2015, 11:19 am

I've read in quite a few places that aspie's often insight. However, I myself can be very insightful, I think largely because I spend so much time 'in my head', processing and analysing everything.

What are your thoughts?

[edit: sorry meant I've read aspie's often lack insight.]



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22 Dec 2015, 11:22 am

Definitely. Especially in retrospect after a social encounter.

During a social encounter, though, there's so much going on that they don't seem "insightful" at the moment.

But...because of what happens during social encounters, we are often misjudged, underestimated.



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22 Dec 2015, 11:30 am

It depends on the subject.

I once caused my brother in law huge distress by finding the syntax error that was causing a bug in a program he was writing. He talked about it and I asked him to show me the code and in about five minutes I found the problem he had been trying to nail down for days... I kind of knew what it had to be and looked in the places that made sense and one of them was it. That was insight into a technical problem that I had some ability and interest in.

That doesn't mean I have much insight at all into social situations. Once I started to appreciate novels with deep characterization, like Jane Austen, I thought I understood people, but it turns out that having some insight into Emma does not translate into understanding what people are doing in the neighborhood or at work.

I think the complexity of insight tends to be wrongly minimized when people try to explain autistic people not having insight into social dynamics and communication. Not having insight into why people have just been offended doesn't mean you don't have deep insight into other things.



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22 Dec 2015, 11:32 am

Indeed....I did learn lots about people through literature. I gained more insight that way.



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23 Dec 2015, 11:02 am

Insight is a great word! For ASD folks, this can be both a superpower and kryptonite, depending on the subject matter and situation.

Proper understanding of your own insight abilities will help you make the best you can out of everything.


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23 Dec 2015, 2:13 pm

I think part of our insightfulness comes from the fact that we look at the world differently than most NT's. Thus, we see things that most don't. 8)


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23 Dec 2015, 3:44 pm

eggheadjr wrote:
I think part of our insightfulness comes from the fact that we look at the world differently than most NT's. Thus, we see things that most don't. 8)


I agree.
I think another factor is that, because most of us exist on the fringes of society, we see things that may be invisible to most people. ie, sometimes it's easier to see something from a distance than when it's right in your face.


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23 Dec 2015, 4:31 pm

Interesting. I think for me, I've 'over-thought'/over-analysed almost everything I do, I might have difficulties processing everything at the time but in time, the comprehensive review of everything means I can be very insightful indeed.


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23 Dec 2015, 6:29 pm

Quite frankly that is something that generally struck me even before I joined this forum, at the time when I was still lurking. Aspies appeared insightful and reflected, (which I guess comes at least partially from being used to being on the outside looking in and thinking consciously about things others can be blind to). That doesn't mean every single person and/or in every single situation, but generally, yeah it's something I've noticed.


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23 Dec 2015, 6:32 pm

The further I get away from a social situation, the more insightful I become pertaining to that situation.



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23 Dec 2015, 6:33 pm

A lot of people often say how insightful and wise I am. :o


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25 Dec 2015, 8:22 pm

I sometimes am. I think it's cuz I'm logical & understand emotions better than the stereotyped Aspie. I been through a psychotic depression contributed partly by by my 1st relationship ending which was due to my OCD causing anxiety & panic attacks. I spent aLot of time sense posting about things trying to sort things out. I used to listen to Dr. Laura before that & I read up abit on psychiatry stuff sense.


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