Dysfunctional Thinkings

Impose your own judgement to override the instructions or judgement of someone with higher authorities

e.g. A summer student were told that the office dress code is shirt and tie.  But the student makes the judgement himself thinking that was not necessary and wear jeans instead to work.  The end result is his losing the job because of his Ego and stubbornness in not listening to others who are more senior or experienced than him.

你要專心仰賴耶和華、不可倚靠自己的聰明．
 在你一切所行的事上、都要認定他、他必指引你的路。
不要自以為有智慧．要敬畏耶和華、遠離惡事．
(箴言 3 : 5-6)

腓立比書 2:3
只要存心謙卑、各人看別人比自己強。

Taking statistics and facts too seriously

Octobertiger: "Forget the statistics. I'm not a number on a chart, and you are not one, too."

Lack of Emotion Wordings during Conversation

One of the therapy session will be practising emotion wordings e.g.
"I feel helpless...because..., so I need to seek help from ..."
"I feel pressured or stressed because..., so I need to take a break"

Emotion transfered through other means than express towards people

Aspies generally expresses emotions through music, writings, arts and nature, instead of express the emotions towards people during socializing.


Too Quick to Jump into Conclusion due to Bottom up Thinking Process

The autistic mind are less flexible and narrower than most people.    The autistic mind is not designed for top down, instead they derive their big picture understanding based on specific examples.  This resulted in, they having a strong tendency to jump into conclusion just because of a few similar incidents they experienced personally.  Also, because of their lack of exposure to people of different mindsets due to their social withdrawal, they don't have a strong feedback mechanism to correct their dyfunctional thinking.

Oversensitive on feeling.


Over Empathizes on Negativity and Personal Experiences

Those have negative upbringing background traits usually can grow out of those traits as they mature.  However, with mind-blindness, Aspies had a hard time detecting the impact of their behavior on others, making maturing out of negative upbringing traits difficult.  The following are some of the negative traits from upbringing:

• Tendency to compare and put down
• Quick to observe and point out other people’s mistakes and thinking doing people a favor
• Teasing people when people make mistake or being dumb
• Self-righteous and critical