Slasher wrote:
Alright I know the post title sounds creepy, but I promise you this isn't all that bad. Let me explain. After getting super obsessed with pets - namely, tarantulas - and psychology, I've started to see the people around me as talking pets who are very smart (kinda). Everything people do or say is amusing to me, because I can analyse their behavior and pin down the psychology behind it. It doesn't matter whether they make fun of me or are nice to me; it's as if reality doesn't exist. maybe this is because my every interaction with people is contrived and manipulated to yield the results I want.
It's not creepy to me because I recognize that psychological manipulation is what they are ALL doing, and you just happen to be very open and honest about describing it.
That thing about "predators" is B.S. because most NTs perform this same process, only cloaked in deceit. They either cannot admit to it because they're not conscious of it, or they refuse to admit to it or connect to their own true feelings due to life-long conditioning.
It is only natural that A.S. would engage in similar contrived behaviors, with the most significant differences being that they often aren't as good at it, or they are more honest about admitting to it.
I feel more comfortable with someone who will admit to me what they are doing than with a "normal" person who is conditioned to the point that deceit is their normal.
To me, what you are likely doing is pinning down the logic algorithms that people around you are using, so you see them much like computer programs. This is what we do with animals/pets so that we can understand their M.O. in the absence of being able to talk to them and ask them.
Talking to a normal person is equally as useless because you will not get the truth.
Few people will tell you that yeah I act or dress this way so that more people will like me, and not because it is the real me. NTs have to have a fabricated identity. Other animals do not.