Joe90 wrote:
Yes because we have to be. NTs are allowed to judge, manipulate, lie, cheat, break rules, whatever, because they're NTs. Aspies have the pressure and the obligation to "live and let live" and follow all the rules by the book and be extremely good people and please everyone because it would be hypocritical if we didn't.
That's the message I pick up on WP anyway.
Just stop trying to be like Jesus and just be humans! Think of yourself sometimes! Nobody's perfect, you aren't obliged to please everyone, and break a few rules sometimes! Otherwise people will just take advantage of you and you end up bending over backwards to please everyone.
The average NT mental toolkit seems to include the ability to judge when they can and can't get away with s***. (Obviously it doesn't work all the time, or there wouldn't be prisons....) I find I have to play by the rules to a ridiculous degree, as I have no idea
when I can get away with bending them. The moment I go "oh, to hell with it" is the moment I blunder into trouble. But I've grown up enough not to make this about black-and-white morality. It's just self-preservation.
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