The way our brains are wired?

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Are the brains of autistic people wired so we feel different about some things that don't even bother NTs?

If so can our brains be trained too overcome these problems?

I think that it is generally accepted that there is differing brain development which impacts all sorts including how we feel about things (and even how we experience feelings). As for ability to change, ASDs are considered life-long conditions but there is a lot of interesting recent research into brain plasticity that would suggest making some changes is not outside the relm of possibility. I hear that CBT is supposed to help but am not sure if it deals specifically with how we actually feel about things.

Are you able to be any more specific about what you mean by 'feel differently about some things'? I guess we feel very differently about a lot of things so it seems possibly a little vague.

Si

Sorry if this doesn't make sense .
To answer your first question, yes.
To answer your second, in a way, yes, like if something bad happens to me that NTs consider bad, and people treat me like I should be sad, I'll uncontrollably start felling sad because it's expected, not because this something that happened to me actually made me feel sad. I often find myself feeling certain emotions because it's 'normal' to feel them at that time, not because it's my natural response to what's going on at the time.
I've subconsciously copied those around me to try and fit in, for as long as I can remember.

I'm almost certain that's it's possible to manipulate one's brain into doing the same as mine.

i'm not sure if it's a difference in the physical brain, or the way our synapses work, or a chemical inhibition within the body or a combination of those or other factors, but we definitely feel some things differently than most nt's. they experience the world around them differently in many ways, and so some things such as overstimulation by sounds, lights, or personal interactions with others might not bother them as it would autistic people. in the same sense, there are things which we might not be bothered by that would upset many nt's.

i believe that to some extent we can train ourselves to deal with or compensate for what we perceive as problems, but to overcome them entirely may not be in our physiology.

when you say "feel different about some things", what things in particular were you thinking of?