So you intellectualize...what next?

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So you managed to use your intellect to understand a particular aspect of NT behavior.

What happens next?

Do you go ahead and implement corrective measures to it?
Do you try to utilize it yourself like an NT would?

If you managed to similarly intellectualize most other aspects ...

Would you be more NT than aspie?
Would your life be easier?
Would you leave other aspies far behind?
Would your understanding go in a straight line? Increase exponentially? Or go around in circles perpetually?
Would you be a wary of the spectre of losing all of your understanding one day and regressing back to your former aspie level?
Would you wonder where it would all end?

That's all I can think of right now.

Thoughts?

I guess I've spent most of my life trying to understand the people I have to deal with; NT and Aspie. There are many things that I seem to understand far better than extremely social NTs. I am often appalled at how clueless some people are about basic human motivation.

Maybe I'm fooling myself. Maybe I don't understand anything at all. But I seem to be able to navigate the complexities of the people around me and I credit my ability in this area with a great deal of observation and intexlectuizing. In some ways I pity people who who "know" how the world works because they never bother to really think about it. But if you know you DON'T know how things work, you try harder and you learn on a deeper level.

I can't really answer the questions you pose because I can't see how they relate to me. All I am doing is this... I try to understand other people as well as I can. I try to be compassionate. I assume other people are something like me, at least to some extent, and with this assumption, i try to understand them as well as possible. I recognize that they may know things that I do not. That they may be my superiors in certain areas. And even when they do not meet my standards, I try to recognize that I might not meet theirs in some other area.

You must have a great deal of humility to be a decent human being. Aspie or NT doesn't matter. We have to recognize each other as having skills and qualities that are valuable. The best thing we can do is to recognize that everyone (including ourselves) have qualities that can make the world better.

The ability to observe, analyze, copy, or simulate is not the same as making something a primary part of your reality and perceptions.
You would be putting on a fish costume and then trying to keep up with schooling fish by copying them, - awkward.


Our understanding is intellectual. Their understanding is intuitive.

"Evil will always win, because good is dumb" ~ spaceballs

We are too dumb to understand NTs intuitively.