How is our way of thinking different from that of NTs?

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The major difference I see between NTs and Aspies is that when an NT can't find a solution otherwise, they think. Whereas aspies think as default.

I believe the root of all our differences is based on how diffenrently our brains process the stimuli we are exposed to in everyday life. Actually, this is what I think gives uniqueness to every human being ; even NTs mentally process the outside world differently from one another, only the differences are way more significant when comparing a NT to an aspie. Most people tend to think all humans receive the same exact mental information when exposed to exterior stimuli, and that only the reactions to those "universally perceived stimuli" are different, as if the reactions were individual choices somehow.

Well I just don't think they are choices : an aspie doesnt choose to be deeply fascinated by certain topics at an early age, and by the same token a NT doesnt choose to pay more attention to human emotions than to trivial/precise informations. It is simply the expression of how differently their brain process the world.

Something that bugs me even further than "simply" being different from most people is how the general public is ignorant about that fact and that they perceive our different ways of acting as some kind of distorted choice we are responsible for. Many persons have asked me at one time or another questions like "Why are you paying attention to this when everybody else is paying attention to that?" or "Why are you so silent in social situations?", as if had to justify myself for my behaviors. The thing is that they cant explain their ways more than I can, but Im the one that needs justifications because Im the one thats acting the most differently from the average person.

I know for one thing, aspies are capable of focusing attention and collecting facts on subjects of interest that would cause an NT envy. Sometimes it's better to see the detrails rather than 'the big picture.'

I don't think NT's see the Big Picture, they see a picture of what they assume will happen if they take charge and make decisions (which are infallible.)


I had a thought earlier....

I think Aspies are complicated when NT's are simple, and vice-versa.

NT's make social interaction a complicated web of guessing games and hidden messages, Aspies just speak the truth as they know it and what their actual feelings are - or not at all.

Aspies consider decisions thoughtfully and carefully think, possibly rethink (possibly OVERthink) but tend to make good, solid decisions based on the facts and evidence. NT's make quick decisions based on feelings and what they WANT things to be.

I was just repeating what I read on the differences between aspies and NT elsewhere (probably written by an NT too). Something like "people with Asperger's see the trees but not the forest."

Most NTs I know see only one aspect of the big picture. They're not very good with lateral thinking, IMO.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateral_thinking

How about being kind and down to earth and sucking in objection as an intellectual exercise if you feel above NT style of interaction? Try it. You may not like it but if you can not take social interaction personally and just do it as if it were a mission(impossible), you might be able to handle day to day group situations better. I don't think of myself as smarter than NTs. My view is quite the opposite of superiority. I feel like I have to fracture like people who do body modification but I don't actually do it though I feel that it would be better. I enjoy people who make me laugh but most of them are probably not aspies and I don't really change how I behave but I don't think of being Aspie as separate from NTs because when an NT is an a**hole, he is just an a**hole not more so for being an NT with their NT conformist ideas of behavior.