Comments by "Comm0ut" (@Comm0ut) on "The Young Turks" channel.

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  30. Any such diagnosis will trigger many threatened high functioning Level 1s. I took interest in some of my "narrowly awesome but otherwise socially impaired" creative bros who do superbly at their crafts in ways normies do not generally manage. Being a non-"foamer" railroad buff I've met a few there too. Level 1 is emphatically NOT "crazy" on its own but it can have observable effects especially when someone so afflicted is easily triggered by things which do not trigger normies, become angry when questioned normally (especially about something outside the scope of their real abilities in regions where they presume competence but are obviously haven't a clue). Level 1s who are high functioning often have low self-awareness. Story time because this works better than dry dead terms: My bro is brilliant at a particular branch of military history with a superb grasp of detail such that he has a fair number of senior officers rightly taking him seriously on his key specialty. The challenge is he presumes the same (VERY) high competence elsewhere and has the following symptoms: Messianic religiosity in which he's the sole valid believer (a Christian sect of one, himself) and instantly freaks out when (calmly and with utmost diplomacy) queried about any logical or reasoned support (despite superior competence in his military field of specific interest). He unironically references inappropriate "humor" attempting to mimic humor but has zero idea how wit works. He has rather odd, messianic social ideas such that Putin appeals to him. When I asked why he preferred Putin (he is unable to study history in other than highly mechanistic ways without social insight) he said "Putin seems stoic and moral". He managed to be an expert on war yet immune to social/political understanding. The are plenty more like him. He's kind, generous, otherwise decent but in that respect the lay term "batshit crazy" is not an exaggeration. His type is startlingly common once you are alert for them. Putin's skill and will likewise enabled his high competence (mastering Soviet then post-Soviet structures) at which he is of course outstanding. Putin's failures likewise are due to his apparently compulsive narrow perspective. How does a former FSB agent trained to understand humans manage to reconcile the epic graft he had to know about with maintaining the very armed forces he relies on for his power and legacy? Ukraine demonstrates he wasn't even cunning and there is no 3D chess in play. I'll gently suggest to the offended they NOT take it personally BUT carefully learn about the subject (not presume anything based on their experience or ANYTHING personal which impairs perception of others) because if you're high functioning yet also aware you can use your advantages over normies to adapt to your reality. Many skilled and creative people have a bit of Aspie (self included!) but if you're able to self-guide through self-awareness your life can be quite rewarding. There's no need to become a normie but learning mimicry (after first learning why it's useful) can serve you well as it serves others. Observing Putin's choices over time is more instructive by far than observing his trained FSB simulated stoicism and (traditional, deliberate) Russian cultural preferences for facial expressions. I watched for many years and his actions fit a pattern of narrow high competence, blaming others he installed for decisions anyone capable of social insight would not have hired to run the armed forces, firing reformers, and generally behaving like my bros. (This is not tied to conventional "good" or "evil" which are subjective, but to functional performance. Putin demands unconditional affirmation which has obvious problems when dealing with humans of vastly greater subject matter expertise. (Putin fired Russian military reformers.) BTW those who don't get what I just wrote would be happier ignoring it so do that and toddle off happy and self-affirmed. The above is not intended for you and you'll be comfortable skipping it.
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