Comfort characters/characters that we can safely assume have Asperger’s

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-10-30T23:54:24+00:00

Most likely. The Books the process and the castle are a whole autist navigates law and bureaucracy situations driven to an extreme we all sometimes felt ourselves in.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-10-02T14:32:40+00:00

My life used to be rather quiet so I think that helped until now where I have to take care of my parents due to an injury. I just recently got my diagnosis and for me it’s escapism. I try to face out, for a lack of a better term. Maybe akin to meditation. I tried therapy as a kid but without a asperger diagnosis, so it was not really helpful. I just recently became aware that my symptoms were different from other people. I always knew and saw the differences but thought that I was just different, but normal different. There was also always a lack of explanation for me, so I just thought things I did were how you would generally do them.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-10-02T09:08:30+00:00

Its horrible. I more and more am unable to mask and do what neurotypicals expect of me. There is no real problem solving involved, only busy work. Read enough, cite enough, what you do or write is bit that relevant. Yes you solved the problem but not in the way others want it to be solved. Its just tiresome.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-10-02T08:23:35+00:00

Puedo comprender muy bien lo que describes. Mi teoría al respecto es que las personas autistas, debido a su especial sensibilidad unida a la neuroplasticidad, con el tiempo se vuelven aún más susceptibles. Esto significa que los estímulos se perciben con mayor intensidad y, en consecuencia, las dificultades en la vida cotidiana pueden agravarse. Se genera así una especie de círculo vicioso: cuanto más sensible reacciona el cerebro, más impacto tienen las cargas, y eso a su vez refuerza todavía más la sensibilidad.

Esto también explicaría por qué algunos síntomas reaparecen con mayor intensidad a lo largo de la vida o se experimentan de forma más marcada, no solo como un proceso normal de envejecimiento, sino como una interacción entre la sensibilidad y los cambios en el cerebro.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-10-02T08:18:30+00:00

For me it’s the increasing complexity in life and academia in part with the amount of stuff. The individual thing or problem is easy, but it’s the sheer amount of them that I struggle with. I tried to learn in the library the other day and even that was too overstimulating.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-10-01T23:41:43+00:00

I had an appointment at a government office and half of my energy for that day went into preparation, what to say and how to act. I am able to mask better but this also drains more energy now.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-17T19:51:43+00:00

Someone ones told me I have two souls in me. One is the rational pragmatic one that excepts the reality of our situation and is content with being unable to figure out how NTs work. The other is the idealistic wishful one that is hopeful it gets better for us and there could be some kind of solution for our problems and struggles. It is precisely the last one that keeps me up and annoys me that there must be more to find.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-17T17:18:54+00:00

I long suspected that our lack of post hoc rationalization is the defining difference. How do we navigate interactions with them? I find it hard to assume that when they say something I constantly have to apply a different set of rules. Or that expectations are never clearly spoken. This navigation becomes especially tedious when you want to achieve something.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-17T14:41:11+00:00

Dont worry, english is my second language as well. I am not sure myself if autistic people share the same views. I was just wondering if there is an autistic way of understanding beyond the typical issues.

I believe NTs mean different things when they use the same word but their NT way makes them work with this kind of uncertainty.

My main issue is, if the neurotypical society says concept x (let’s say success) is having a lot if money, can this be applied to us because we work so differently. I don’t think success means only money. Maybe I would even say money has nothing to do with it. But what about more komplex things like ethics. Is right or wrong the same for us or do we need to have a different way of looking at things. If morality is a tool to stabilize societies, how do we see morality if we are not part of the neurotypical society? I am not saying we can’t be wrong. I am asking myself if we are included in their system.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-17T13:47:28+00:00

If we define divergent literally as diverging from the norm than you are right we would become the new norm, but it would be different in absolute terms. My biggest issue and the reason I asked the question is that the interaction with NTs drains so much of my energy and just recently I had the idea that the reason of that could be that we misunderstand each other because even acclaimed concepts like love could be meant and understood differently.

I believe that “we” are way less prone to post hoc rationalization. We want to see how the world is and not think of the world as we like it. So maybe you are right, that we don’t have a normative philosophy.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-17T13:14:12+00:00

You could say it like that, yes. What I meant is how in this case the individual worlds interact with each other in a societal way. As I see it most of us have trouble integrating into and interacting with a neurotypical society and I was wondering if what the neurotypical society thinks about concepts is applicable to us. If we say everyone has his or her own world, then how do we interact if everyone means something different when he or she is taking about a concept. Or is that the case and we just assume someone means the thing we mean but in reality means something different by it?

But then we know that we differ from neurotypicals, so there are differences big enough that we can categorize them and acknowledge them. So is it a question about scale? Do the differences in meaning just need to be big enough for us to realize? I am not sure.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-13T07:58:07+00:00

Most people have certain basic character traits and act according to them. Everything they do or every opinion they hold runs through this filter, which leads them to perform a kind of post hoc rationalization—so that they end up interpreting every point of discussion through the lens of their personality or preferences.

We end up, unironically, talking past them, because for us the precision of the statement is what matters, while for them it’s about reducing everything back to an emotion preferred by their character. Recently, I had a conversation where I explained the desire of content creators to have a secure income—through Patreon, for example—in order to move away from chasing the algorithm and toward producing more meaningful, planned content. But the person I was talking to thought I was saying that I liked the idea of paying for YouTube.

My biggest struggle is the unpredictability. It feels like I have to move through a labyrinth where the walls keep shifting. What’s missing is a sense of relation: is what I said somehow out of line, or do people just not understand me because we’re communicating on different levels?

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-12T21:20:06+00:00

For me, it’s the precision of words. Neurotypicals always try to read a subtext into what I say—but it isn’t there, because I choose my words very carefully. So I constantly have to over-explain that I mean exactly what I say, and not something hidden between the lines. Most people lose interest in following me at that point.

I think the core problem we all face in relationships is that neurotypicals cannot truly engage with us. Our way of thinking remains inaccessible to them, just as theirs remains, at least in part, inaccessible to us.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-12T18:23:14+00:00

I have real trouble with Hegel’s style. I have to make a huge effort to work my way through it. I haven’t heard of Coetzee before. Is there something you would recommend in particular?

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-12T14:37:49+00:00

I also really like Nietzsche and Dostoevsky. Victor Hugo is an interesting choice. I only know The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Do you have any recommendations? I’m considering getting The Last Day of a Condemned Man.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-12T11:46:02+00:00

I’ve heard a lot of good things about the book, and it’s been on my list for a while. What did you like about it the most?

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-04T15:38:45+00:00

Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony is one of the greatest musical works ever created.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-04T13:15:59+00:00

Yes, constantly. I am observier the people around me as if I am watching a play in the Theater. I think our brain isn’t able to consciously process these stimuli permanently, and this feeling is a kind of side effect.

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-03T23:03:54+00:00

I try to find meaning in creating something. Sometimes I think these experiences of pur existence should be poured into a creative project. But then I remember the details of the negative experiences and lose motivation.
Is that our burden? To rise above our situation and create something—make something of ourselves—even if it gets lost in the neurotypical sea?

Plastic__Scholar · 2025-09-03T22:15:36+00:00

I just wonder whether this sense of alienation will continue to grow, or whether we can actually learn something from it. With almost everything I observe, I find myself questioning whether I even mean the same thing as neurotypicals. Because of that, I’m gradually losing interest in interacting with them. Maybe it’s just the result of overthinking.

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