Abstract
Object personification is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human agents. In online forums, autistic individuals commonly report experiencing this phenomenon. Given that approximately half of all autistic individuals experience difficulties identifying their own emotions, the suggestion that object personification may be a feature of autism seems almost paradoxical. Why would a person experience sympathy for objects, when they struggle to understand and verbalise the emotions of other people as well as their own? An online survey was used to assess tendency for personification in 87 autistic and 263 non-autistic adults. Together, our results indicate that object personification occurs commonly among autistic individuals, and perhaps more often (and later in life) than in the general population. Given that in many cases, autistic people report their personification experiences as distressing, it is important to consider the reasons for the increased personification and identify structures for support.
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Interesting. I don’t think it applies to my situation so much. I have that, but if anything, I’m hyper sensitive of mine and others emotions, to the point that I people please at a detriment to my own well being.
Ah, that’s not autism. It’s the personality trait of Agreeableness. Go search for big 5 personality traits and see if “high agreeableness” matches your experience.
Highly disagreeable people won’t do anything they don’t want to do. They’ll do their own thing rather than go with the group. This can cause them fucked-up personal relationships because this makes people feel bad. High agreeableness people place the group’s well-being above their own, which can also cause them to have fucked-up personal relationships.
Highly disagreeable people won’t do anything they don’t want to do. They’ll do their own thing rather than go with the group. This can cause them fucked-up personal relationships because this makes people feel bad.
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Oh no
I’ve seen a lot more reading on the subject pointing towards upbringing. I don’t really think I have autism, but when I read about a trait of something like what this post is about and it relates to me, it gives me pause. Glad this conversation is happening today! I’m learning some interesting stuff!
Oh, I’ve definitely got some issues from growing up, but they’re trivial compared to others I’ve ran into. My mom was a young single mom until I was six, so I was partially raised by a narcissist Catholic boomer. I’m 34 now and I’ve processed quite a lot of it and made my peace with some of it.
It’s interesting that now we have all these studies and a lot more information about early childhood development. I missed it all by a decade.
This reminds me of reading Marie Kondo who, before giving away/getting rid of things, she would say (I’m not checking spelling) osukaresamadesuta (oh-scar-e-sama-desh-ta) which is like, thank you for your hard work. It is like releasing the item from its duty to you to either rest or have purpose is someone else’s life.
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