Hi.
I have a question. Can the inability to read between the "lines" in social situations lead to "social paranoia"?
"Social paranoia" is probably a term I have invented so let me explain what I mean:
By "social paranoia" I that because I can't figure out what people really mean by what they are saying, my "social blindness" causes me to come up with totally wrong interpretations about their "actual" point, or demand, or judgment about me. In other words, because I can't read "between the lines" in a conversation, I make up stuff in my mind about what could be "between the lines". Of course, what I read between the lines is never what people actually meant. So I'm totally misinterpreting the stuff, mainly by trying to deconstruct logically the said words and their meaning to decode the mood or point or message behind the said words. So each and every single time I believe I've read something "between the lines", I'm totally WRONG. I call this "social paranoia".
This reminds me of the term confabulation:
Quote:
In psychiatry, confabulation (verb: confabulate) is a disturbance of memory, defined as the production of fabricated, distorted, or misinterpreted memories about oneself or the world, without the conscious intention to deceive.[1] People who confabulate present incorrect memories ranging from "subtle alterations to bizarre fabrications",[2] and are generally very confident about their recollections, despite contradictory evidence.[3]
Of course, confabulation has to do with memory. But on a deeper level, it's about making stuff up that aren't there, because the parts of brain that are supposed to "know what's going on" are not functional or physically damaged/absent. It makes a lot of sense to me that I'm so in need to know what people actually mean, that my brain, inherently unable to read social cues, has started to make stuff up, namely the intention behind people's behavior and words,
for which I'm not in possession of a functional neural circuit.
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Aspie score: 131 of 200
NT score: 34 of 200
Possibly Aspie (diagnosed by an autism expert, doc moves abroad, forced to change docs and all say it's schizophrenia NOS or schizo-affective disorde or personality disorders. initial doc was a colleague of uncle Simon btw. you do the math.). (edit: by Uncle Simon I mean Simon Baron Cohen. Just to clear things up.)
04 Aug 2017, 1:13 pm
