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does mindblindness go away with recognition?
yes 2%  2%  [ 1 ]
no, you are still mindblind; you are just intellectualizing your mindblindness 75%  75%  [ 36 ]
don't know, or confused by the question 23%  23%  [ 11 ]
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25 May 2010, 12:15 pm

I think that people who have AS and HFA see the world through their own intellect and experience. We then take our personal experiences and reasoning and intellectualize what other people are thinking. Sometimes right, sometimes wrong.



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25 May 2010, 2:35 pm

Mysty wrote:
There's something more, though. I'm thinking of a friend of mind who is the one person I most understand. It's more than projection, because I can understand him even in his differences from me. It's something intuitive. Like, I get what kind of person he is, how he thinks, and can apply that. And not on a conscious level, not logicking things out (yes, I just made "logic" into a verb :)), but knowing because something in my brain that I'm not conscious of understands him and works out his perspective, based on that.

That's interesting. I don't think I'm really aware of the distinction between conscious and unconscious understanding. My way of thinking is always intuitive, regardless of whether I'm trying to work out a person's perspective or trying to solve a scientific problem. I "feel" the answer (or at least come up with a good educated guess) and then I use logic to try and verify whether my "feeling" is correct.