Common Sense

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I was asked the following in another thread unrelated to this topic, so I created a new thread here to keep the topic organized and to get more input from other members....

The questions on common sense are as follows:

One person already responded with...

Common sense is oppressive and should be banned. I mean... I wish I had it but...

My reply is...

I think common sense is a term people refer to as common knowledge or something everybody should know. For instance, when you drive thru McDonalds, you have the common sense to order at the menu and drive up to the window to pay and get your food. If the person taking your debit card as payment stopped to ask if you were overdrawing your account by using this card, you would think she was crazy and lacked common sense because that's not something you ask people.

Aspergers people tend to get pegged as someone who lacks common sense because we are so different that a lot of our actions and decisions are not always considered a common action or decision (one that most people would act or decide). Sometimes, our strange activities act as a good thing for us, and sometimes it isn't the smartest thing we could do. Most people seem to only peg you as someone who lacks common sense when they witness a pattern of odd behavior that results adversely to your life. But if good things happen to you as a result of your stangeness, then you are ecclectic. Everybody makes stupid decisions, but if you are weird, it's because you lack common sense (according to them).

One thing I do notice is that most of the time when people are being overly critical about your life, they are usually the ones that need to take a look at their own. Nobody is perfect, and people who can't accept your imperfections tend to be ones who are denial about their own.

I do think the old woman was right...most people don't like to think deeply on a regular basis. They do when they are in the mood for it, and they love being able to find someone who will go to a deeper level. I also notice that when you do have deep conversations with people, it's a bonding thing for them. Maybe it's instinctive for them to share their deepest darkest feelings and thoughts with only people they feel worthy of it or that they can trust. I'm not sure why because in my experience, nobody can use my deepest thoughts and feelings against me...not socially or anything else for that matter. Cheap tricks seem to do the job just fine and that's what most caniving people stick to. So my only guess as to why some people only share their deep thoughts with those they trust is because they fear it somehow, and it's not always a valid fear. So to me, that wouldn't be a smart thing to do, but since it's a common stupidity, then it's common sense...lol.

common sense=common knowledge


That sounds about right to me.

I think people use the terms interchangeably without even realizing it. If something is common knowledge (even if wrong) then believing it and acting on it is common sense. The uphill battle of science has been to investigate the "sensible" things that people take as common knowledge and figure out the "why" behind them and if they are true or not.

Janissy had me thinking there too...

I used to always view "common sense" as a sense like the 5 God gave us. I would almost say technically, it should be like if you touch it and get burned, you now have common sense not to touch hot things. That really is something all humans have. But most people do take it to another level.

They take it as sense in the term of whether or not it makes sense. Like if you do something that doesn't make sense to the vast majority of people, then you lack common sense.

Since it's obvious on this site and in my experiences that people who lack autism tend to do things that just doesn't make sense to us autistic people, you can almost say I don't have any common sense, I have autistic sense. But I think it would be better said to say, I don't have any sense except essence.

I love it.... Essense being what's real... common sense being the norm.