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Old Jun 16, 2013, 10:19 AM
Mapleton Mapleton is offline
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Originally Posted by Willowleaf View Post
You say you don't want to be a special person. I think we all deserve to be special. Why should some people feel more special than others, although I get what you meant about therapy. I still struggle with it and even after 3 years feel that my t must feel like that about my appointments, but recently we have started to really work on these feelings. I think therapy is the best place for them. I'm sorry you are feeling like this.

I hear what you're saying about deserving to be special, but... There is this thing called 'theory of mind', which is this thing that is a deficit in autism, but normal in everyone else, I think.

Theory of mind is essentially when you can connect that not only you have experiences and feelings, but that other people do too. It's not that I don't know, but it's a conscious and not an automatic thing for me, so when I say...

I don't want to be special, I mean also, that I recognize that I have to not be 'too special' or just effectively on my own, emotionally.

Your post meant a lot, thank you.