Do you tend to think in "Black and White"?

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03 Mar 2008, 3:59 pm

I have never had difficulty with "the big picture," though I have sometimes been, perhaps overly, concerned with small details that no one else is likely to notice.

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03 Mar 2008, 5:07 pm

Mw99 wrote:

I read somewhere that most aspies think in "Black and White." That is, they think in terms of opposites (Good/bad. Sad/happy. Big/small, etc) and fail to see the areas in between.

I personally think that's nonsense.

(l)Oh(l), the irony! Maybe it's neither sense nor nonsense; perhaps the truth lies in between! As such, I cannot properly answer your dichotomous, black-and-white poll! Reject the inherent limitations of Boolean logic—that of the bit, on and off, yes or no, true or false—and accept the messiah of the qubit! Then let this be your Truth:

For the set of persons with an autism spectrum disorder, the proposition that their thinking is dichotomous is simultaneously both:

Reasonable nonsense
Farcical fact

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03 Mar 2008, 5:09 pm

I've always thought of myself as a person of extremes (all or nothing), but when I really think about things there just seems to be lots of shades of grey.

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03 Mar 2008, 6:17 pm

Law of the Excluded Middle ftw?

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Interesting to me is that, in conversations, I am usually the one pointing out ambiguity, while others "accuse" me (and correctly so) of being a postmodernist.

I have spent much time teaching myself to think more fuzzily. I think that once one has taught oneself to do this, one become more finely attuned to the sources of ambiguity than people who grasp it only intuitively. Thus one seems more "post-modern".

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03 Mar 2008, 7:58 pm

twoshots wrote:

Thus one seems more "post-modern".

When I said that I was a postmodernist, I meant it quite literally. As a sociologist, I am a critical poststructuralist and a social constructionist, which are often regarded as postmodern perspectives.

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