emotional vs logical thinking

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I read somewhere that people with ASDs function primarily from either an emotional or a logical perspective. A logical one is certainly able to feel emotions and an emotional one can certainly use logic, but it's about how one functions primarily. How one relates to the world.
Do you think this is true? If some, which are you?

Logical thinker. Not congruent with....the 'real world' of neurotypical emotive thought. Further, I can 'see' the distinction between logic and emotion, thereby making that clear divide. NTs cannot and hopelessly confuse the two in a tangled mess. I sure cannot undo that tangle for them either. Don't even try - way beyond my league. What a mess. I have 3.5 < x < 4 emotions in total. Apparently, NTs can have......unknown quanitity - their self-report: maybe 100 (if they can count that high). I believe them too. Geez, how can they ever keep track of that plus THINK? Logic chip in their head is smashed to bits. I am an analytical thinker.

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Well, Midnight Judge - you have just implicated yourself. 2 voted (you and I) and the poll is 1:1 on logic vs. emotion. I know where I am. What is emotive?

Logical.

I have less empathy and emotional attachment to people than a brick. If you look at a brick sideways, it kinda looks like it cares. Me, not at all.

Ha, my mother said she doesn't like being around emotional people since she's around cool and calm Daniel so much.

I wish I were you.

Same thing for me.

Im logical to the point of extreme. My mom was disgusted when she found out, because shes extremely emotional and has empathy for about everybody.

War? Hunger? Survival of the fittest! Just move on, dont feel bad.

Logical emotion, maybe? People think I care way less than I actually do. I've been trying to add emotion into my person, just to help me feel more human.

I'm definately a logical thinker. Im not emotional at all to be honest. I don't really show any emotion and that is the reason why aspie's are like this. We lack it therefore we don't speak with our emotions and sometimes that carries a conversation. I think it's a combination of both that allows NT's to socialize because alot of times there emotions speak for them naturally as if it's a reflex. Just like my mom she see's things on the news and might say oh my goodness and show empathy while I on the other hand just don't feel bad when something bad happens to somebody else.

Ha, that is so me. At the same time, I'm very codependent, but it's more like I draw my sense of self worth from helping, and less like I actually care about the problem. I'm very uncomfortable when someone around me is expressing a negative emotion.

What i lack in compassionate empathy I overcompensate in emotional empathy.

This was a result of growing up in an abusive home where there was no attunement between me and my adopted mother, so out of brutal and emotional necessity I overcompensated.

However, I would say I am naturally aspie/logic combined with advanced emotional/aspie

It is just not logical to be emotional http://www.wrongplanet.net/:lol:
Laughing

sorry, just have to goto work, this thread looks interesting but I do not have the time, so I am tagging it with this post so I can find and reference more easily it later.

I'm a logical thinker with an emotional foundation.

Emotions and logic are not opposites, they're just two out of many components of thinking (neither of which really describes the main component of mine).

I would definitely consider myself in the logical camp. I show very little emotion and i honestly don't know how much emotion i feel, i just think of what would be the best way to do something instead of some internalized value. I do have empathy and sympathy though, too much to be honest, i try to help anything i can, whenever i can. Most people would probably think i am cold or uncaring but i have no idea how people come to the conclusion that emotion is inherently more benevolent than logic. Emotion brought us such great things as the inquisition,the crusades,nazi germany,mccarthyism, etc.

I can't say one or the other. A bit of both.