12-17-2018, 11:21 PM
(12-17-2018, 04:22 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(12-17-2018, 03:35 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: I have Asperger's. I have poor facial recognition, so I have difficulty making friends. It is complicated, and you wouldn't understand it unless you had Asperger's or were trained in mental health.
Dale Carnegie's book has as a corollary that one can do things to avoid making enemies or looking like a horrible person.
Well, you're also a political hack according to your own words and view of yourself. I'll give you credit, you are more upfront and honest about yourself than the blues you're affiliated with here.
I admit to being a terribly-flawed person, above all else a pathetic waste of personal ability that I wish that I had put to better use. Maybe if I had known about Asperger's earlier I might have found appropriate uses of my intellectual talents than drifting along in jobs horribly suited to me. "But he has such good verbal and mathematical skills, acuity at spatial relationships, and an ear for music. So what could go wrong?"
It is easy to confuse me with a destructive sociopath or psychopath because I have weird expressions of feelings. At the worst I can seem insensitive, rebellious, and disloyal. This said, I need not feel the right thing to do the right thing. I know the rules, and I do not break them without some recognition that the rules deserve to be broken on occasion -- or that Asperger's acts up.
One of the rules is to avoid angry expressions of profanity or personal degradation. I had hoped that you would get the message on that.
If I lack empathy, I can at least act as if I have it.
Political hack? We all have agendas, do we not?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.