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nessa238
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13 May 2013, 10:31 am

The whole world is a lot of people acting as far as I'm concerned

Everyone is trying to impress everyone else and gain higher status, whatever their condition


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13 May 2013, 10:39 am

rogerharris wrote:
the almost scientific method type "humanproofing" aspects in law make me wonder how much contract law etc is actually dreamed up by those with a touch of AS in them.


haha, you are correct! my ex is in contract law, he's quite successful writing and ferreting out "hidden code bombs" for his employer, and he dives right in and does seemingly impossible things like restructure almost a billion in debt by spotting some quibble in the fine print of the original contracts. He's definitely AS but being in his late fifties was never diagnosed. I wasnt either until just recently.

Anyone who wonders how corporations like quiznos get away with it, they've got someone like my ex in a back office. He drinks gin and tonics at his desk and pees into an erlenmeyer flask. AS and contract law, definitely.


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13 May 2013, 10:46 am

Since every human, being NT or not, differs from each other, and sometimes that difference can be huge, we all have to act in a certain way in society.
What if everyone could be what they are when they are in their room alone?

In society we need to have some "common behavior" so we can share the same places with people that are a lot different from us.


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13 May 2013, 12:33 pm

Yes, it is. My mother often admits that such and such behavior is acting to have others think of you in a double plus good way or to avoid having others think of you in a not good way.


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13 May 2013, 11:54 pm

Stoek wrote:
Nts are highly fixated on posturing, it appears to be their main activity for atleast 50 percent of their time.

They blatantly admit it to. They'll say "you don't know how to act" etc.

They don't think they mean act literally but they in fact do. We don't act we simply be, it's a rather interesting difference that is pretty strong once you understand it.

The nt brain is so fixated on this posturing they so often confuse the posturing from the actual state.

They fixate on acting nice, instead of actually making any effort to being a good person, and would be more proud of saying nice things than of actually doing them.

Nts confuse people that act rich, from the people that actually have ability to keep money within the family.

Nts value someone who sounds smart over someone who has actual intelligence etc.


My brothers were always telling me I didn't know how to act. Looking back on it now, I think it is funny that they used to say that, because they were right. My father used to tell me I should go to charm school. That's funny also because I don't think they even had charm schools in the second half of the 20'th century. And my mother used to tell me there was something wrong with my personality. That just wasn't nice.