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02 Sep 2012, 12:02 am

Moondust wrote:
I think NTs think they can intuit others' emotions a lot better than they actually can. Otherwise I wouldn't be able to fool them about how I feel so often.

This is what I think.



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02 Sep 2012, 12:26 am

That's what I thought you were asking, yes.

JitakuKeibiinB wrote:
The biggest problem for me is that I don't look at people's faces to attempt to read them. I'm not even thinking about the person, I'm thinking about the topic of discussion, or some random unrelated /thing/.


It will unfortunately take a few more eons for the "experts" to discover that this is actually what's going on. I told my AS diagnoser, a big expert, and she listened with interest, but of course she won't challenge the system by repeating it where it counts.

The reason we don't catch all those face emotions and body language is we don't focus on people as much as NTs do. The main difference between AS and NT is the focus (internal / external).


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