is there anyway for us not to analyze things to death?

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I assume it's not just in our nature to analyze everything but is a bit co-morbid as well right? or do we have no choice but to analyze everything we do? Are there anyways around this that would allow us to JUST LIVE? (not to say that i think analyzing means ur not living, but you know what i mean).

No.

Sorry but there's not much you can do. We're over-analysers and that's just that. Anyway I don't want to "just live" that's too boring I want to look deeper, analysing isn't all bad.

I personally think that's the biggest advantage of having AS - we see more than NTs do about the world around us. We can notice little things that other people don't notice - and isn't that amazing?

Analysis to paralysis.

I agree.

Sure, without our tendencies to over-analyze we'd have less anxiety, few time-consuming problem solving obsessions and less existential dilemmas among other things. All in all, I wouldn't trade it since I see it as one of my more positive AS traits. Not to mention one which I enjoy when it's not causing trouble or sending my mind into overload.

I do analyse everything in details as my "default-setting". I do not see it in anyway as a problem - quite the opposite. It helps me to understand my situation and others.

I certainly hope not.

And what would any of us do with total free time?

didn't mean it as a negative thing...just right now i'm working a job i hate and since i can't leave it anytime soon i wish i would stop analyzing why i hate it....I JUST DO....analyzing it while i still have to do it just makes it worse. Luckily i learned a long while ago i have to hate doing something for a long amount of time in order to figure out what I enjoy doing, pursue it, make it a passion, and have more motivation doing so having known where i came from and how much more i like it than the previous thing...if that makes any sense.

^ yes. it does make sense and welcome to WP. I think it is a fun and good thread. thank you for starting it.

i only over analize things i like. and things vs each other, like fire agate vs opal and if opal subsiquently turned into fire agate when it grew up

What kind of things do you people tend to over analyze?

I keep thinking a lot about social interactions, why people do that, say that, what people must think of me or other people.
What friends mean, what a family is, what my parents must be thinking about me, how people is programmed by society.

I feel I'm going to turn crazy for thinking this much.
Is this normal?

I always wonder how NT's go around their day, what do they think? How's their reality?

Don't think so I'm afraid. I tried ordering my mind to stop hyperanalyzing...

Whipstitches...I think I love you!

I see my over-analyzing as both a good and bad thing. It does prevent me from leading that normal life I often times crave, but like others have said, I see everything from a deeper perspective - which in my honest opinion is a gift.

If there is, I haven't found it.

And yes, that includes analyzing my misery when I'm miserable. And yes, it makes me more miserable.