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yelekam
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17 Sep 2016, 10:55 am

How would you describe your way of considering and trying to figure the thoughts of others? How do you consider such thoughts and their relevance. How do you go about theorizing what people may think? How do you go about trying to figure out what someone may be thinking about something?



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17 Sep 2016, 11:05 am

By listening to what other people say. I also read a lot online so I generalize those thoughts people post. I also obsess about it when someone got upset with me or when something went wrong and make guesses about what they might have been thinking even though I know I will never figure it out because I am not inside their brain so I wouldn't know.


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17 Sep 2016, 3:57 pm

yelekam wrote:
How would you describe your way of considering and trying to figure the thoughts of others? How do you consider such thoughts and their relevance. How do you go about theorizing what people may think? How do you go about trying to figure out what someone may be thinking about something?


I don't even try. There are far too many possibilties to consider, so I just don't bother.


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17 Sep 2016, 5:33 pm

I have to ask them.

I cannot read people's facial expression or body language well. And my poor executive functioning gives me no memories of past experiences with that person or similar situations to extrapolate from, and no problem solving tools to figure it out.


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