@lovely_darlingprettybaby Yes, and no. It just depends upon what it is.
If you have a certain degree of "mind-blindness", like I do, your social life can be an unpredictable minefield of emotional reactions that you were not expecting. I'm learning slowly to just keep my thoughts to myself. Certain topics are off limits for me, even on this forum.
Certain "brain teaser" puzzles I can do almost effortlessly, and others, I literally can't do at all. I just chalk it up to my "different brain". At work, I do a lot with reading and interpreting graphical information and it is effortless for me, whilst many of my co-workers don't understand it, would rather not look at it, or simply call me to do it for them.
I am not a follower of anyone, but rather, a highly independent thinker. I am slowly learning not to talk about what I am doing and why because most people don't understand it, or worse, have fallen victim to bias and disinformation, then want to criticize. I'm doing what I am doing after having done my research, and having success with it, thank you very much. Don't tell me something doesn't work, when clearly it does quite swimmingly.
Basically, if it involves people, there is no foresight or prediction of reaction. I would consider myself a rather friendly, conscientious, thoughtful, helpful, honest person that believes in the Golden Rule of
"Do unto others as you would have done unto you". So, when some people react with the
"How would you like it if I did this to you?" question, my typical response is that
"I wouldn't react to it at all.". Which then just triggers more of an emotional response, like I am some sort of evil person for doubling down on their emotional trauma, when truly, if the situation were reversed, I honestly wouldn't have reacted at all. So, please tell me how am I supposed to predict that? I struggle with people who want to twist the narrative and presume the worst of intent, when I have no clue as to interpreting their intent or cognitive biases. Often my co-workers will be in a small group and will mention how weird another co-worker is because of this or that, and I'm standing right there trying to figure out why they thought that behavior was somehow "weird". This happens frequently, and I just remain silent and rather perplexed at that conversation, with my mind spinning,
"How is this NOT normal, acceptable behavior?". I am quite socially naive when it comes to reading people. It's nice to have a wife that will answer the door and the phone, as well as deal with salespeople.
