Tag: detecting bullshit
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Just do it! (Do I need a life coach?)
I’m wondering what is happening to me now? Possibly it’s all those visualisations side effect? Basically, I suddenly want to change my life, and all of it! The problem with visualisation is that, although I am making an effort to only use is as a tool to make me realise that future will happen (I…
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Emotional integrity| Psychology Today
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/childhood-emotional-neglect/202202/6-signals-relationship-lacks-emotional-integrity I keep having an impression recently that Psychology Today is full of bullshit. I just read this article about emotional integrity, which is the state where we understand our emotions and clearly communicate them to others, yet the article doesn’t mention alexithymia, which is inability to understand our own emotions. Autistics are very often…
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I was naughty just a minute ago
I just told dr Orloff’s assistant what I think about her boss. I actually feel a bit bad for the assistant, although, I suppose if she had some common sense she’d change a job? I don’t know how those things work really, I would find it extremely difficult to work for someone who I wouldn’t…
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Are emotional vampires in DSM?
DSM is an official handbook for diagnosing mental dissorder. We are now on version 5, where autism and Asperger’s are the same thing. But autism is definitely there. I just received an email from dr Orloff, a fairly famous psychiatrist and an author, where I was told that dr Orloff studied emotional vampires but not…
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What if I wasn’t diagnosed? (emotional vampire)
I only started reading about Asperger’s syndrome because John told me he’s awaiting diagnosis, that was in 2015, before we even met. If not that, I’d most likely wouldn’t know. No one would probably suggested it either because I didn’t look autistic. I looked like emotional vampire and a drama queen, I guess. Maybe not…
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How do we define success?
I found this article while looking for some information about how to be authentic. The article states that our society measures success by the amount of savings one have. Psychology Today is an American website so possibly things are different over there? From what I see, British society measures success by the amount of debt…
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Watch out for… logical fallacy
https://mentalhealthathome.org/2022/02/10/what-is-logical-fallacy/ I just read this post on Ashley Peterson’s blog. I think this is what neurotypicals do quite a lot: twisting facts to make it look like they’re right. Possibly reading about it in a bit more details will make it easier to spot that for us, autistics. I wonder whether this should be included…
Autistic and me 