The Why module, like all of our consciousness-generating modules, can learn. It can change its responses, it is designed to continuously adapt to our experience of our reality. So if one sets about to change one's emotional response to particular events or situations, it is possible, though always hard and demanding commitment and effort. For young autists, children, it should often be possible to make human interaction more rewarding and thus perhaps tilt their young Why module to orient more often toward other people. However, if one is an adult autist, the choice is rather different. One can still adjust and alter one's emotional response in order to engage in more fulfilling social interactions with other folks (though, again, this demands fortitude and discipline)--or, the other path, is to embrace your dark gift, to accept that our experience of reality is radically different than the non-autistic experience, and rather than treat oneself as a defective socializer, recognize that our brain has made us an exceptional experiencer of reality, able to notice, appreciate, and revel in the universe as it truly is.
Or one could pursue both, greater social facility and greater leveraging of one's uniqueness, which is what I have done.
Is it possible to overwrite the choices of your Why module? And would that actually be a desirable thing to do?
The Why module, like all of our consciousness-generating modules, can learn. It can change its responses, it is designed to continuously adapt to our experience of our reality. So if one sets about to change one's emotional response to particular events or situations, it is possible, though always hard and demanding commitment and effort. For young autists, children, it should often be possible to make human interaction more rewarding and thus perhaps tilt their young Why module to orient more often toward other people. However, if one is an adult autist, the choice is rather different. One can still adjust and alter one's emotional response in order to engage in more fulfilling social interactions with other folks (though, again, this demands fortitude and discipline)--or, the other path, is to embrace your dark gift, to accept that our experience of reality is radically different than the non-autistic experience, and rather than treat oneself as a defective socializer, recognize that our brain has made us an exceptional experiencer of reality, able to notice, appreciate, and revel in the universe as it truly is.
Or one could pursue both, greater social facility and greater leveraging of one's uniqueness, which is what I have done.