I propose the working definition of the human personality is simply the manifestation of how each human being analyzes information and makes predictions in ways that make sense to the coordinated efforts of his or her unique sensory, motor, and nervous systems. Each human can only analyze how they are able to analyze. Trying to shape humans to think and behave within parameters arbitrarily set as normal to maximize their life success only serves to confuse, undermine, and severely damage his or her finely tuned and precisely calibrated personality.
Currently, all research on the human personality relies loosely upon the cutting and pasting of the 8 existing theories of personality, all of them psychologically and philosophically based, none of them mutually agreed upon or utilized, and all of them scientifically invalidated completely or partially. All psychological and psychiatric research to date cannot be valid when every researcher has used his or her own personal interpretation of what the human personality actually is and/or does.
If we understand that a human is simply how he or she analyzes and we re-remember the premise that humans are created to be biologically functional creatures like all other organisms on the planet, then we can start to look at our biology in terms of its functionality. Currently we look at the human personality in terms of how it is "suppose" to function according to arbitrary psychologically and philosophically based norms.
It makes less than zero sense that in 2012 we identified 1 in 50 individuals between the ages of 6 and 17 as having autistic spectrum disorder. First of all, human mammals cannot come into the world with personalities that are disordered. This defies all biological logic. One way to look at this number is to say one in 50 individuals are coming into the world who analyze and understand information in ways that don't sync up with arbitrarily and subjectively defined and referenced norms. Differences in how one analyses and understands information should not be used to define psychological disorders. Just because someone does not analyze and understand in typical ways does not mean they will end up happy and socially dysfunctional if not "taught" how to think and behave more normally.
The true purpose of establishing norms is to maximize the efficiency of organizing groups of people for any given endeavor, not for the purpose of identifying psychological disorders. If we understand each human mammal comes into the world set up to maximize his or her ability to interact with his or her environment in ways that can make the most sense to his or her particular sensory, motor, and nervous systems, then we will understand each human mammal is designed to be as successful as possible given his or her particular biology.
The process of speaking to any child or adult as if they are existing from a disordered place is the only true way to cause them biological distress, unhappiness, anger, and/or violent rage. We, the "diagnosers," have no notion of what human perspective is since we were not allowed to develop our own unique perspectives naturally like we should have. Therefore, we see perspective as mutually shared and interpreted as opposed to completely unique to every individual human.
If follows, then, that individuals we call autistic who interact with objects and people radically differently than we do would seem to us disordered and likely to end up unhappy and unfulfilled. We are trying to make sense of them through our eyes, our desires, and how interacting with our environment makes sense to us. We don't try to look at them through their eyes and their unique perspectives and the unique ways in which their sensory, motor, and nervous systems allow them to analyze and understand information. We don't do this for anybody, however. And this is our most basic human tragedy.
When we assume people will be happier and more functional if they think and behave like we do, or like a normative reference, then we sow the sees for addiction, depression, rage, violence, or worse. When our biologically based personality is not accepted as valid, no matter who we are, we suffer greatly. None of us can analyze and understand information in any other way than how we can analyze and understand it. Our personalities are the sum total of how we analyze and understand information, whether the information is social, mathematical, scientific, observational, literary, etc. We are nothing more and nothing less than a reflection of how we make sense of information. How we make sense of inromation Striving to achieve a normality that does not exist in nature and/or trying to compel other people to achieve it, is the single most destructive human dynamic, and in my opinion, the root cause of all human suffering. We cannot solve our greatest societal problems until we cease and desist in the attacks on our own biologically based personalities that were perfected for our use in the womb. When how we analyze information is second guessed or deemed disordered, our physiology is wired to hide or attack. All of our so called personality disorders are based in humans withdrawing or attacking. Our biology doesn't get in our way, it shows us the way.
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