A hypothetical question

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I remember an episode of Red Dwarf where Lister's confidence and paranoia were manifested as human beings.


My question is
if your AS or autism was manifested as another human being, how would you react to them?

A lot more normally to it, than I would react to others.

It'd be my best friend I'd stand there talking to it about our personal obsessions.

I think the confidence and paranoia thing is different to AS.......in the episode you mention, the two characters were making suggestions that would either boost or cut Lister's confidence in as far as he would listen to them. I can't imagine a parallel to that with AS. What would this personification of our condition be saying to us?

I did notice in the episode that Rimmer wasn't quite the smeghead he's usually cracked up to be - in spite of his loathing for Lister's scruffy habits and thinking style, he tried to get the scutter to stun Paranoia, to rescue Lister. But I suppose that's off topic.

Neat question. I don't know, and here's why:

They are both already manifested as human, in me! But they don't manifest at the same time. I'm either one at one time, or the other, and I can't imagine being someone separate in the presence of both.

That is stepping way outside "Theory of Mind" and I just can't do it.

I only know what it's like to BE each of them. And "paranoia" isn't really one of them. It's more of a "skeptical" person with a little low self-esteem, which is different.

I don't think anyone is "out to get me" unless it's very clear someone is, and that's pretty rare.

I would ask the doctor for more medication please.