Are you a pessimist or an optimist?

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In all honesty, though, this pretty much sums me up.

I consider myself a realist but it usually comes across as pessimism.

Basically I need to have something tangible to feel optimistic about. I don't know how to trick my brain into seeing hope when the situation shows no signs of hope. It's almost as hard as convincing myself that Santa-Claus exists when I know he doesn't. I need an assurance of truth to feel confident about anything.

I don't understand how that works. I used to think that way but then I developed anhedonia. If I don't have anything positive to look forward to I can't motivate myself to try much. I don't get the enjoyment of anticipation when I'm never expecting anything good. Then even when something goes well the happiness will be fleeting. I need optimism but as I said the hope has to be something real and tangible.

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I can understand that; when I become hypercritical is is difficult for me to find happiness and hope within myself due to the hypersensitivity. But those times occur less often now, and I don't look for the bad in situations or people - I've only learned that Murphy is a determined SOB who is bound and determined to make his influence known in life, so it is best to expect that things will go wrong, that there will be problems along the way, instead of idealization.


M.

pessimist for the most part.

Bataar, this is not an easy question to answer as, over the years I've been somewhat pessimistic about some things but, optmistic about others therefore, I'd say it depends yet, nowdays, I try to be more optimistic for, most of the difficulites I've had are not as bad as, one could make them out to be. 2nd, You could say that whether one is pessimistic or optimistic depends upon a whole host of various factors and variables in all fellow Aspergians life's and such..


ProfessorX

Pessimoptimist.

Optimistic pessimist.

I hope for the best, but I try not to be too downhearted if the worst transpires.

I tend to fluctuate between optimism, pessimism and realism. I'd like to think that I'm a realist though.