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Invisigoth's avatar

Since there are people bringing up different aspects of NT experience compared to the psychopath I remember the first time that I was really confronted with the possibility of not being NT. My college roommate was a Church of Christ preacher and he was writing a sermon/tract touting the superiority of the "conviction of the Holy Spirit" vs "Having a conscious", and I realized that despite having been a regular church goer for the 18 years of my life I had no clue as to what he was talking about.

A few years later when I was married my now ex wife would attempt to throw my past misdeeds at me it cause a guilt trip and I'd frequently laugh as I never felt any remorse, guilt or shame at anything she tried to use.

Something I've never gotten about some of the online test is that they'll ask if you think that someone "deserved" whatever I may have done and the fact is that I've never really considered it when I've done something. I did what I did for my own reasons

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Repetitive posts from Quora shouldn’t bother your readers here, since it shouldn’t be a big deal to just stop reading a post, etc. It is very obvious that you care about what you’re doing here, and I think that’s great. I apologize for promising to come back to a topic after thinking on it, and not finding the time to do so, as life is very complicated for me right now.

I did mention I would like to know about how you experience humour. Intellectually, we can find things funny, but as we laugh, hormones are secreted, chemicals that give us joy just from smiling. Some therapists, as I’m sure you know, even advocate practicing smiling in a mirror in an effort to “fake it until you make it” (that one I find ridiculous, but it may work for some, although I could never suggest it, or do it because I find it condescending or disingenuous). Considering your brain structure is different, and I assume your chemistry (oxytocin for one) is also, I wonder how you experience humour; if there are different levels of it, etc.

I also appreciate that it must be very difficult to describe something compared to something you’ve never experienced firsthand. I think you do a great job of it, and although difficult, you are successful in helping the NT look into the way your mind/brain works. It is quite a feat, and I hope you can feel some sort of pride or satisfaction from it.

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