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This was an enlightening view of David's perspective, on his highlighting, on Medium, on life in general. I'm an Aspie too, and I especially relate to the part about making
detailed plans to prepare for every eventuality. Yeah I know that life is essentially unpredictable, but I still hope that making many backup plans will help to protect me, LOL. Great point
too about processing moral and structural ambiguity. I hadn't thought about it in detail before. Well, I can intellectually understand that people are not black and white, all good or
all bad. But on an emotional level, yes, I have a hard time reconciling very different faces of the same person. A former friend of mine was a really kind and altruistic, inspiring person,
and they passionately defended the rights of the oppressed. So when I learned one day that they had allegations of sexual assault, I was very shocked. There were reports from mutual friends
saying that they were very controlling and manipulative, too... Even today I have trouble processing these two, very opposite impressions of the same person. I could say I don't know
what to believe. But maybe both sides of my former friend are real. My brain just has trouble putting the two together.