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15 Oct 2011, 6:44 pm
"I think it's perfectly normal, and confirmation of our sanity when we question ourselves every now and again. Truly crazy people think they are the only true sane people on the planet, and everyone else is crazy!"
What if they really are the only sane ones on the planet?
But they aren't. You're insane if you actually believe that.
No, just mistaken. Not enough perceptual or cognitive distortion to be truly insane.
lol, verdandi, I was just joking given the topic at hand.
Although, I believe many would think there's enough cognitive distortion involved if you actually genuinely believed that.
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15 Oct 2011, 6:52 pm
"I think it's perfectly normal, and confirmation of our sanity when we question ourselves every now and again. Truly crazy people think they are the only true sane people on the planet, and everyone else is crazy!"
What if they really are the only sane ones on the planet?
But they aren't. You're insane if you actually believe that.
No, just mistaken. Not enough perceptual or cognitive distortion to be truly insane.
lol, verdandi, I was just joking given the topic at hand.
Although, I believe many would think there's enough cognitive distortion involved if you actually genuinely believed that.True, but I meant more like:
My neighbor had a severe manic episode recently that ended with him being institutionalized. He believed that God had chosen him to replace the angel of death, and he could just smite people to death and banish them to Hell with a wave of his hand. The reason he was institutionalized was that his delusions were also intensely misogynist, and he had beaten a woman brutally enough to break multiple bones. He's more of an exception in that he was violent, as most people who have any kind of psychological or neurological disorder are more likely to be targets of violence than perpetrators.
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15 Oct 2011, 7:01 pm
"I think it's perfectly normal, and confirmation of our sanity when we question ourselves every now and again. Truly crazy people think they are the only true sane people on the planet, and everyone else is crazy!"
What if they really are the only sane ones on the planet?
But they aren't. You're insane if you actually believe that.
No, just mistaken. Not enough perceptual or cognitive distortion to be truly insane.
lol, verdandi, I was just joking given the topic at hand.
Although, I believe many would think there's enough cognitive distortion involved if you actually genuinely believed that.True, but I meant more like:
My neighbor had a severe manic episode recently that ended with him being institutionalized. He believed that God had chosen him to replace the angel of death, and he could just smite people to death and banish them to Hell with a wave of his hand. The reason he was institutionalized was that his delusions were also intensely misogynist, and he had beaten a woman brutally enough to break multiple bones. He's more of an exception in that he was violent, as most people who have any kind of psychological or neurological disorder are more likely to be targets of violence than perpetrators.
Lol, this is funny. In my previous post, I was unsure if you were directing your sentence at ooOoOoOAnaOoOoOoo or the crazy people who thought they were the only sane ones alive, but I reasoned that usually one is referring to the last sentence instead of the first one when replying to someone unless it's somehow made obvious that's not the case.
I'm wondering if that ambiguity to me was an "autistic moment" on my part, lol. (i.e., a ToM issue) That would be funny to happen on an autistic forum.
15 Oct 2011, 7:08 pm
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15 Oct 2011, 7:42 pm
I'm pretty sure that's a feature of ToM. It's expected that people know what knowledge another person possesses and know in advance what they'll understand, so if you ignore their background, you'll probably easily get called crazy.
Coincidentally, I thought you were crazy when you referred to Borat's Cousin in your joke but I think I eventually figured out that Borat's Cousin was an (competing?) autism researcher. It seemed kind of weird you assumed that either I knew that or you thought it was common knowledge. But, I understand it's probably your autism at play there, so I'm not holding it against you. I think you're actually pretty cool.
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