ModusPonens wrote:
Greb wrote:
ModusPonens wrote:
Greb wrote:
That's interesting.
I can be considered left-winged, but I'm quite sick of this kind of approaches that are quite common in the left wing. Didn't know the psychological concept you're talking about, so I always defined it as 'emotional blindness'.
I'm quite inmune to it, something that I consider an aspie gift.
But I just always wondered: is this 'inmunity' a common trait for aspies or is it not?
Idk, but my guess is that there is no such imunity. Aspies have emotions and consciousness, so they have defense mechanisms like everyone else. Note that these emotions that are felt as unacceptable are not conscious, so you might have this defense mechanism in action without knowing. I know I have certain defense mechanisms that are active (because I do therapy) and I'm an aspie.
Up to what point?
I have emotions, of course, but I feel like they are in a different 'room' from reasoning. I don't feel like any emotion is unacceptable since I don't feel emotions as an inner part of me, but an attribute that I carry with me, so I don't feel identified with them, so none is unacceptable since they're outer attributes. Damn, difficult to explain.
A question to serve as an example: are you homophobic? You'll probably answer that you aren't. However, your mind automaticaly makes judgements (statistical, or learned) towards gay people. For example you might make the statistical judgement that enfeminate men are probably gay. Even though every one admits to make this mental judgement, most people don't consider themselves homophobic, which is a contradiction. Such are thoughts that are kept away from conscious thought.
Well, it depends on how you define homophobic. Of course, I have uncomfortable feelings towards two men kissing, for example, something that it's likely comming from my cultural heritage, but no matter where it comes from, it happens. Or, for example, it's true that I use to have more possitive feelings towards heterosexual men than towards homosexual men, not such a big difference but enough to be aware of it. If this enters in the homophobic definition (words are about how we define them) then I would be. I have no problem accepting it, however, I don't feel guilty for it. When it comes to make decissions, I need to be aware of my real feelings. The opposite would be unlogical. If those are my real feelings, why I should deny them? That doesn't make sense, since it only leads to have the wrong information in order to make decissions. Or to make the wrong decissions.
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04 Apr 2013, 7:51 pm
