Mind Reading

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I'm afraid that people are reading my mind. Not the government or NWO or anything, just normal people, reading my mind.

I don't really believe that they do, I'm just afraid that they are. Understand the difference?

I am afraid of that, too. Ever since I saw this show with a woman who claimed she could do so. The show was fictional, but it still scared me.

I understand perfectly what your gut keeps telling you about other people reading your mind. Telepathy comes up in my favored reading from time to time and I have to disagree with the usual opinion that "OmiGawd, if they saw what was inside my head they would DETEST me!" Whoever wrote that has never known a priest.

What's inside peoples' heads is the usual run of stuff, even truly nasty fantasies

Unfortunately I do.

Thats stupid people cant read minds.

I'm the exact same way. I avoid thinking bad thoughts about someone if they are nearby. Logically i know that they aren't reading my mind, but i can't get over the feeling that they might be able to.

Read Telling Lies by Dr. Paul Ekman

My sister told me she thinks certain thoughts when she is in a quiet room with other people, like 'if you can hear this clap twice.'

I wonder that too, once a boy got sent out of class for 'thinking about it' and I'm sitting there thinking "What the...............?"

I can relate to what your saying. A few months ago i was was talking with this girl and i had this song running through my head. It was from a car commercial that was playing on tv allot at the time. I didn't mention it to anyone. And then the next day she comes up to me and says now i have that song stuck in my head too. And i said what song? And she doesn't answer but just looks at me funny and walks away. Go figure...
Things like this happen to me a lot.

That is really strange. Were you humming the song? I hum or sing sometimes and I don't realize i am doing so until someone else points it out to me. Mabey you were doing the same thing and she just didn't tell you.

I get paranoid about watching what I think and feel a lot too but its not direct mind reading that I fear, its what that thought is doing to the subtleties of my nonverbal communication. Its like if your thinking a thought that's uncomfortable or that makes you anxious (even slightly) in a situation people seem like they can really pick up on that and you get a subtle reaction out of them to that end. Supposedly most people can at least read a change in someone's comfort level or a thought that may be a potential threat to them pretty easily - I think it's definitely something evolutionary.

I don't understand exactly what your fear involves, Seigneur. Here's a quick list of what I came up with:
You fear people know what you're going to do before you do.
The ability to read minds suggests forces in the universe unknown to science; you fear the unknown.
You fear people know your embarrassing secrets and this causes social anxiety.
If people are reading your mind, perhaps you personally are important in some way that you have forgotten. You fear this whole world might be some sort of trap or prison for you.
You dislike being prejudged. If people can read minds and no one's shown you how yet, you must be out of the loop. You fear a mistake's been made.
You fear the power a scattered group of mindreaders could wield upon society.
Mindreading suggests divine/occult power. You fear God/Satan.
You don't actually fear anything. When you say "I'm afraid people are reading my mind," you just mean it in the sense of "I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that people are reading my mind."

Anything here even come close? Also, when you say "I don't really believe that they do, I'm just afraid that they are," I take that to mean that, although you consider it unlikely, you continue to entertain the possibility that mindreaders exist and still search for evidence that supports or disproves this. Right?

I imagine much of this comes from the fact that NT's communicate heavily through body language and expressions. An NT doesn't even need to really say anything at all, but can communicate a wealth of information to another NT. For those of us with AS and ASD, it can be quite a bit challengine. NT's will attempt to read us by watching our body language, and interpret what they think. Since we, especially myself don't really convey the right body language at times (take a look at my pic's in the member's only page) it can be frustrating as NT's attempt to "read our minds" and come up with incorrect conclusions. The worst of it is when they try to read into things, and form the wrong conclusions about our emotions and such, and thus mis-interpret the situations. I wish that I could just wear a sign around my neck that says "Disregard all body language this individual may be displaying" So far, my challenge has been to manage the B.L, and basically just look neutral. It seems that attempting to display the correct B.L. always results in incorrect messages!

Yeah me too it’s like you no people can’t but what if they can? Seriously!

I don't think you have anything to worry about. I used to wonder the same thing. But I got a job in law enforcement, which means I've been interrogated, given an intensive polygraph, picked over, heavily scrutinized and God if it didn't feel like they were in my skull. But these people are looking to exclude someone who's even slightly off. If they could have seen into my mind, although I didn't have anything bad to hide, I wouldn't have made it through because of my basic eccenticities. So that pretty much dispelled that theory for me.

I think this feeling is created because we are especially bad at reading other people's emotions and they seem at least slightly able to gauge us. This gives the illusion that it's not a double-blind situation, when in fact it is.