The autistic brain and seeing the truth.

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What is it about the autistic brain and the ability to see the truth? Ever since I was really young I’ve had the ability to see things for what they are. It’s usually around events,or situations or things I’m being told. My brain tells me this isn’t right and comes up with a more logical explanation, it can sometimes be in the face of a lot of opposition, then somewhere down the line it turns out my initial thoughts turn out to be the correct ones. Is anyone else like this? What is the most reasonable explanation.

Logic follows a rigid set of rules and doesn’t always explain everything. Being autistic may enable some to perceive the world from a different POV, but everybody experiences their own observations and therefore different truths to what is happening.

This is interesting because I think a lot of my issue with socialising with NTs is being honest, even with people about how THEY feel I can sometimes say too much without realising I shouldn't have said anything at all.

I don't know what it is but sometimes it can make me feel very uncomfortable to see the meta-truth in things on a social level. To notice or see things I'm not necessarily aloud to talk about.

When I think deeply about things I can sift through and suss things out, but it takes time. If I had time on my hands, I would probably be a good detective, as I have found all sorts of things through sifting through all the evidence. Somehow many people don't seem to be able to think deeply about things.

I think I have that ability too. I'm not sure what the source of it is, but I think that as people who are on the spectrum we are less likely to be distracted or led astray by the opinions or influence of others because we don't have that innate urge to go along and get along like NTs usually have, so we can separate the empirical truth from other people's opinions and perceptions.

I think that being an outsider you can see the things that other people wouldn't because they are too involved in society. I don't think it's an autistic thing as much as a being different thing. and Also attention to detail definitely helps you look into something and see what others don't. Being removed from the system you have a unique opportunity to see the system for what it really is in from and unbiased viewpoint. That being said, I'm not entirely sure its' the neurology aspect. I'm sure if NTs were the abnormal ones they'd see it the same way.

I do see things as it is.

My problem lies with how I express and describe things as it is -- on top of recalling it.



My instincts will say 'roundly bended metal with colored plastic coatings' -- and it takes more processing for me to say it's a 'paperclip'.

Small and subtle in basics -- but it constantly accumulates into something big and significant.
Just like how few milliseconds of reaction time can be as significant as life and death.

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Aspies have unconventional beliefs more often due to being noncomformist by nature. Unconventional views tend to be self-reinforcing for psychological reasons. So the autistic brain might be more stubbornly convinced that it sees the truth, but as for that odd myth of the insightful Aspie...I've never seen it. Most Aspies I've known are rather clueless, and that includes myself in most contexts where I lack extensive experience. It is true, however, that we are often more literal. And the literal interpretation might be "more accurate" sometimes but it's not always closer to the "truth."

For example, in chemistry I made an unusual but kind of silly mistake by taking the term "uncertain digits" literally and seriously confused my professor by asking why you couldn't say that a measurement of 0.5000 mL had four uncertain digits instead of 1 (the correct answer). I've never seen anyone so utterly bewildered by a question. He had no idea where I'd gotten that idea because it hadn't occurred to him to take the definition in the textbook literally. Was my interpretation more "true"? No, it was just more literal, which doesn't automatically translate to being more accurate. In other contexts, my literalness did point me in the right direction even when no one understood my perspective. So it's all a matter of context and perspective.

Ah yes, There's also the problem of who determs who's view point is more truthful. I mean everyone think they see the truth regardless of whether or not they are actually seeing the truth. he truth is based on your perspective.

Yes I think it's possible that autism makes us more likely to cut through hype. Truth might be somewhat relative, but the guarded language of science is rather more immune to that trap than the subjective flip-flopping of everyday communication. And even if in pursuing the truth we never completely get there, lies and distortion are demonstrable, palpable things that can often be detected with a very high degree of certainty. One thing I know is that it's possible to be a lot more objective than the average person. I'm frequently disgusted by the crap that gets passed off as genuine communication in mainstream society, and I have trouble understanding why anybody with even half a brain bothers to take it in. Politicians and ad-men come out with the most horrendous distortions, and it's deemed to have an effect, i.e. people actually listen to them. What's that about? Is their intelligence not insulted? Do they think it's OK to lie?