What are your NT traits?

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From reading WP, I've noticed that a lot of people consider themselves to have both AS traits and NT traits, but don't usually mention what their NT traits are. So who here has both AS traits and NT traits, and what are your NT traits?

Let's make sure to distinguish between NT traits and AS-to-NT adaptations. An NT trait is "I employ intuitive theory of mind during casual interactions". An AS-to-NT adaptation is "I employ analytical theory of mind during casual interactions".

For the purposes of this thread, you can say that you have an NT trait if you have it at least 50% of the time. For example, I employ intuitive theory of mind during casual interactions approximately 0% of the time, and I employ analytical theory of mind during casual interactions approximately 5% of the time. 95-100% of the time, I forget to remember that there is such a thing as theory of mind, so I have neither the NT trait or the AS-to-NT adaptation. Instead, I have the AS trait of not employing theory of mind regularly.

From the rdos quiz, one of my NT traits was something like "I know that other people have thoughts and feelings different from my own". Well, yeah, of course I know that, and I can even figure out, while sitting around in front of my computer, what some of those might have been, but I almost never remember to apply the info in real-time. IMO, it's arguable whether a "yes/often" answer indicates an NT trait on that question. Maybe something like "I know that other people have thoughts and feelings different from my own, and I notice and respond to them in real-time" would be an NT trait. Maybe that's what the question was actually asking, and I took it too literally? Who knows? Anyway, I answered that question the NT way according to the scoring.

I'm curious what your NT traits are, what traits are the most common, and whether they are truly NT traits or AS-to-NT adaptations.

For NTs, what is your favorite NT trait? What is your least favorite?

-I'm more emotional than logical (80% of the time)

-I can easily figure out tone of voice and facial expressions (65% of the time)

-Math/Science subjects are not of much interest to me (75% of the time)

-I have a sense of humour (70% of the time)

-I am not bothered by loud noise (85% of the time)

-I prefer going out somewhere, than staying home (95% of the time)

Those are the big ones, I'm sure there is more.

I'm starting to wonder if I have any at all.

I only have a sense of humor. Other than that, I'm definately all Aspie.

I don't think a sense of humor counts. I have a sense of humor, it's just different.

Oh, I thought of one. I know that "it's raining cats and dogs" is a metaphor for "it's raining heavily."

I like girls. (Only one ever liked me so i married her)

-I have a LOT more emotional thinking than logical thinking. The only logical thinking is when I think about my special interest - but even that's emotional thinking really because my special interests are certain people and how I feel about them

-I have naturally developed normal ability to read other people's facial expressions, tone of voice, body language, and emotions

-I don't have a strong interest over maths, science, and video games

-I am good with expressing my feelings and emotions

-I have a sense of humour, and I am not a literal thinker - I can always tell if somebody's joking and if they're not

-I am not bothered by smells, lights, touch, and being touched (of course everybody is bothered to a certain degree, but I'm not bothered by these like I am with loud noises)

-I find it natural to empathise with other people, and I can make average eye contact

-I am self-aware, and although I do and say stupid things, I at least know immediately afterwards that it was (shame I don't know beforehand!)

-I enjoy making friends and spending time with friends, whether I am good at making friends or not

- I can read body language and tone of voice fairly well without much cognitive effort

- I do make eye contact, though it's less when I'm really stressed out

- I easily understand sarcasm, irony, hyperbole, etc...

- I can empathize fairly well (at least when I'm calm and not being overwhelmed by my own feelings)

- I'm a gestalt learner, not a rote memorizer

- I'm not very Spock-like. If anything I'm overly emotional

- I can enjoy social time depending on the people

- I'm not gonna talk about my interests at length unless the other party shows some interest in me. I need positive feedback in a conversation.

My only blatant NT trait is that I can now make total eye contact with people when speaking to them without feeling any pain. This was a result of the TMS trial that I underwent though. I could look at people in the eyes in the past, but I always had this uneasy feeling that they were piercing me, as if they were a threat...

Oh, I totally forgot about eye contact! I did go through a stage where I didn't make it, between 6 and 8. Before 6, I made it, and I started making it again after 8.

- I have a sense of humor

- I dislike daily routines

- I don't talk like a robot (unless Bender from Futurama counts ) or use overly verbose language (though I do overexplain)

- I understand analogies, metaphores, hyperbole, etc

I don't think I have any. If I do, they are so slight I don't notice them very much.

I can do eye contact. Problem is I've got very visual mind and when I start seeing stuff in my head I start pointing to it
and breaking eye contact . I really must stop doing this, but I always forget.

I have been able to go into shops recently and make small talk. However the man who owns the shop said somehting and I sort or ranted about an obscure bit of relvant psychological theory. This might have been normal but I was covered in concrete at the time.

I got kids who are AS-NT hybrids and are very cool. In fact NT females think they are cooler than most NT males and I think eventually the NT species will no longer exist due to changes in the genepool when they and the other hybrids reproduce. I explained this to the guy running the local shop and he didn't see to think it was implausible.

See, no one notices.

I am trying to decide what qualifies as an NT trait and what does not.