Here's what I find evil about socialization

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The problem isn't evolution, the problem is civilisation and the belief systems it creates (or those which govern it).

If you (you being the generic you) want to change things you need to change what people believe. Good luck. People get personally attached to their beliefs and can become quite upset if you question them! They appear to see their beliefs as an extension of themselves. Question the belief, question the person! Tread carefully when undertaking such tasks...and be prepared to metaphorically have your head taken off. And this is where evolution does make an appearance...people devolve (ie go backwards through the evolutionary chart) and will snarl, growl and fling s**t at you.

Learn to duck or go do something else and leave them to believe what they want to.

You're right Marshall. Capitalism is a part of the reason why it seldom pays off to help others. You're basically on your own. People might hold the door for you, but they aren't going to help you in any fundamental way, because that's a huge struggle with only mental benefits.

But it's not just because Capitalism is a wrong political system. All practical possible systems will have this flaw. It's hard to change this, because nature just favours the best survivors. It's really that fundament of life I find troublesome. Life should favour the most helpsome, kind and well-intended people.

as a point of interest, capitalism is an economic system, not a political one. same with communism or socialism.

there are some schools of thought that make an argument that capitalism leads inevitably to fascism and is incompatible with democracy. my personal belief is that once all excess resources are used up, we head straight into a feudal state.

I think ego-centricity is more of a psychological result of the experiences of someone with Asperger's than part of the disorder itself. Aspies tend to have fewer friends and interact a lot less with other people, so they generally haven't built up as much trust towards other people as most NTs have. As a result of social disadvantages, Aspies are also more likely to be more discontent with society as a whole than NTs are. People who are socially isolated also have a tendency to contemplate philosophical questions more than people who aren't. Lack of friends and social interaction, combined with discontentment with society, and tendency to contemplate philosophy, is really likely to lead to cynicism and distrust towards other people. People who are cynical and distrust other people generally aren't as likely to be as concerned with their well-being. I'm pretty cynical on the macro level, but I don't distrust my friends very much. I can be concerned with the well-being of other people, if I view them as deserving.

In the words of Krishnamurti: “It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.”

Mike1, beautifully put, you are spot on!

I've thought about that too.

Isn't being mentally healthy almost defined by being well adjusted to society, whether it is sick or not?

So if most people at for instance a work place think you should be socially mean, being mentally healthy is being socially mean. It's all a matter of adapting to survival.

And since people with AS are in minority, thinking like we do in that sense becomes mentally unhealthy. Also even if the AS makes you think the helpful, kind and truly generous people should be rewarded the most, the way I do.

I have thought a lot about how everything that was defined as evil by the Catholics/Christians has become trend. Being social to me is about using as many people as you can to get to where you want to go. When I am around other people my age who have tons of friends, they always shit-talk their "friends". I think to myself something like, "I am glad that I only have a few friends because if I were friends with these people they'd be shit-talking me and that's not really being friends." I think of Asperger's as an appropriate reaction to the BS of social-life in America cause it's really all a facade but logically you should be able to trust people but you can't and then when you try get screwed over. At least that's what has happened to me. I've tried making friends and they ended up being f****d up people. I feel like I'm polluting myself by having all these fake people look at me and think that we have something incommon just because of my interests or the way I dress. One of the first things I learned from getting involved in the social world is that just because someone dresses like you/has the same interests/likes the same music...doesn't mean that they think the same way as you do, or like the same things you do for the same reasons. Hell, they most likely don't know where any of their interests originated which is something I have always felt was important to know about the things you are interested in. But yes, it's all a game that gives you no real points.

I can deal with that, but I get to be a knight, not a lady! Love the armor, hate ruffles!

and i will be robin hood!

/ruffles off

<--- Wants to be Robin Hood. Waaahhhh!

Robin Hood is amazing, you can be Red Robin Hood and Opi can be Robin Hood plain (unless she too has a color preference).

akshully... i like black...

Can I be Robin Hood Periwinkle with chartreuse polka dots?

YES, you can even wear ski boots!

LOL!! !