AuDHD & divorced twice. I help married Muslim men understand their wives and keep their marriages strong. Learn from my mistakes, not yours.
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Abu Cortex (AuDHD) 🇸🇱 retweeted
Autists & psychopaths are opposites on empathy.
There's cognitive empathy & there's affective empathy.
Cognitive empathy (understanding & reading mental states & cues): autists struggle, psychopaths do not. Psychopaths can even have better cognitive empathy than normies!
Affective empathy (feeling others' emotions & pain): psychopaths struggle, autists do not. Some autists even experience hyper-empathy on this one!
In other words, psychopaths can read others quite well; they just won't empathize with them.
This can lead to extremely manipulative behavior because they don't care when they hurt other people. They don't feel what others are feeling, so it doesn't pain them to harm someone the way it would most of us.
Autists? We can't read social cues well, but once we know someone else is hurt, we feel it & we care!
So instead of manipulative behavior, you get someone who frequently *accidentally* offends people, but isn't *trying* to be harmful.
That's why psychopaths are feared & autists are either disliked or pitied.
Cuz what sounds scarier: the person who can't read the room but cares, or the person who CAN read the room & work it without feeling guilt if they hurt anyone?
Incidentally, this is why one of my fave shows is Hannibal. Hannibal is a psychopath; Will Graham says he's more on the autistic spectrum. Hannibal is pure manipulative evil; Will has such hyper-empathy he can empathize even with psychopaths.
But it's obviously easier to use great room-reading abilities & zero fucks given to your advantage than the polar opposite, for obvious reasons.
And I simply don't agree that psychopaths & autists share the same pathology. Like I said, they're actually kinda polar opposite!
Socially and human relationship wise, psychopaths and autists share nearly the same pathology. At least in their most notable psychological trait.
Both the psychopath/sociopath and the autistic's functioning in human emotional connection, the understanding of and reverence for human emotional connection, and the use of and recognition of their associated social cues is abnormal.
Lacking. They don't seem to have the innate program that runs unconscious emotional understanding which comes stock for most humans.
Their brain does not do this in the way that most people's do without them having to try. Psychopaths and artists have to learn this and consciously try.
And yet psychopaths are deemed villains for this while the autistic mostly garner sympathy, patience and help from others.
Why are psychopaths the villains and autists the long suffering unsung heroes?
Because the psychopathic mind has figured out how to utilize this trait towards their own gain and the autist hasn't?
I think we revere psychopathic traits whether we like to admit it or not and as such we view them as higher on the social hierarchy and powerful whereas reviews the artistic as low on the social hierarchy and inconsequential. They are victims of their abnormal psychology and should be helped.
Nobody views psychopaths as victims of their abnormal psychology.
Because they've taken their lack, their weakness, their abnormality and utilized it toward its strengths.
Take your own weakness and use it as a strength.
ADHD time blindness means I can get up 30 minutes before my shift, which is a 42 minute drive away and still be on time.
But if I get up 2 hours before a shift that’s 20 minutes drive away, ill ALWAYS overestimate how much time I have an end up being late
Why does no one wanna talk about the fact that most vehicles come with the option to change the angle of the beam, but too many people are too thick to know how to do this on their own vehicle???
Anyone can find it in pretty much any vehicle they drive
Abu Cortex (AuDHD) 🇸🇱 retweeted
If you have ADHD in the UK at the moment it feels like every single day you have to read yet more misleading headlines and then the resulting commentary from people who seem to despise our very existence and it's so utterly, utterly demoralising and upsetting to just have no way to push back – at Winsford, England
Abu Cortex (AuDHD) 🇸🇱 retweeted
أسلم أبناء أبي لهب
وهم يقرأون
تبت يدا أبي لهب وتب
وأسلم خالد بن الوليد
وهو يقوأ الآية الني نزلت تتوعد في أبيه
( سأصليه سقر )
وأسلم عكرمة
وهو يقرأ الأيات التي تذم أبيه
( أرأيت الذي ينهى )
وأسلم علي بن أبي طالب
وهو يقرأ الآيات التي نزلت في أبيه
( إنك لاتهدي من أحببت )
ولم يحرف الصحابة القرآن لإرضاء مشاعرهم
لكن رأينا أشباه مسلمين يترحمون
على كفار لا يمتون لهم بصلة !
Abu Cortex (AuDHD) 🇸🇱 retweeted
There's no such thing as "game" if she likes you then you can just say basically anything.
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My autistic people been suffering thinking they’re not worthy.
We took that shit literally
Abu Cortex (AuDHD) 🇸🇱 retweeted
this is structural discrimination against autistic people that believe people write things for a reason and mean what they say btw teapaw.org/AnthonyCastrio/status/…
Abu Cortex (AuDHD) 🇸🇱 retweeted
My 26 years of being alive has taught me that women are the true up holders of the patriarchal system. There's nothing a woman hates more on this planet than a man who doesn't live up to the values of the patriarchal system. They definitely will deny it but time reveals all.
Therapists don’t work as well if their demographic doesn’t match yours.
There are also complementary demographics for each demographic.
If your therapist isn’t from one of these two camps, they will be rubbish.
Also, there’s a lot of inexperienced ones too,
I forgot one of my perfume customers cuts captain America’s hair 😂😂
Anthony Mackie is his regular customer
I combine the Hadith of Hell fire being 70x as hot as the sun + the Hadith of the one dipped in Jannah claiming “I never went through hardship”, and the verse of this world being an illusion.
My paradigm is “pain” in this world is nerfed like video game controller haptics
