How does embarrassment affect people? What if you were blind to embarrassment?

[SDET]

I specifically ask this because I have a severely impeded or perhaps non-existent sense of embarrassment. It mostly just a word or something I read about. I have been told that I should compare myself to someone who has no sense of touch. They would need to visually watch where they put there hands as not to destroy them. The comparison is to pay careful attention to written rules to prevent adverse action. How might you be different if your ability to sense embarrassment were impaired?

 

[Tigerace117]

I specifically ask this because I have a severely impeded or perhaps non-existent sense of embarrassment. It mostly just a word or something I read about. I have been told that I should compare myself to someone who has no sense of touch. They would need to visually watch where they put there hands as not to destroy them. The comparison is to pay careful attention to written rules to prevent adverse action. How might you be different if your ability to sense embarrassment were impaired?

Gee, I think we probably all figured that out by now given that your avatar is a poster praising Pinochet as a "hero" in the "war against Marxism" :roll:

 

[Xelor]

As long as one is on a path of continuous improvement and always does the best one is capable of doing, what's there to be embarrassed about?

The trick isn't to have no shame -- indeed, having no shame is something about which one should be embarrassed -- it's to do/say nothing that's shameful, something that's wholly within one's control.

 

[SDET]

As long as one is on a path of continuous improvement and always does the best one is capable of doing, what's there to be embarrassed about?

The trick isn't to have no shame -- indeed, having no shame is something about which one should be embarrassed -- it's to do/say nothing that's shameful, something that's wholly within one's control.

My brain doesn't process the response known as embarrassment. I couldn't be embarrassed if I wanted to. I only understand what I can read about the concept.

 

[Xelor]

My brain doesn't process the response known as embarrassment. I couldn't be embarrassed if I wanted to. I only understand what I can read about the concept.

Well, that's unfortunate.

 

[SDET]

Well, that's unfortunate.

It has it's benefits, though. It brings about a certain freedom most people don't have. However, it's important to be able to analyze what adverse action a specific behavior might yield.

 

[Xelor]

My brain doesn't process the response known as embarrassment. I couldn't be embarrassed if I wanted to. I only understand what I can read about the concept.

Well, that's unfortunate.

It has it's benefits, though. It brings about a certain freedom most people don't have. However, it's important to be able to analyze what adverse action a specific behavior might yield.

Blue:
Yes, in much the same way that autism does.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
-- Robert Burns, "To Louise"​

 

[SDET]

Blue:
Yes, in much the same way that autism does.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
-- Robert Burns, "To Louise"​

It's actually a manifestation of autism.

 

[Rexedgar]

My brain doesn't process the response known as embarrassment. I couldn't be embarrassed if I wanted to. I only understand what I can read about the concept.

Here’s what you do tomorrow; poop, shower and shave; do not get dressed; go about your daily routine and get back to us........

This will only work if you have some reason to be away from your dwelling.....do not get dressed!

 

[SDET]

Here’s what you do tomorrow; poop, shower and shave; do not get dressed; go about your daily routine and get back to us........

This will only work if you have some reason to be away from your dwelling.....do not get dressed!

That would lead to arrest for indecent exposure and a criminal record. Those are adverse consequences.

 

[Xelor]

It's actually a manifestation of autism.

Okay....

 

[SDET]

Okay....

The only thing I'm a bit unsure of is whether it is conditioning from being ridiculed my whole life or biological. Constant exposure to something leads to desensitization. I'm thinking biological because I'm still affected by social exclusion, but not embarrassment.

 

[X Factor]

This does explain some things.

 

[Amelia]

This does explain some things.

Yes, it does.


On the one hand it makes me feel a little more sympathetic toward SDET, but it doesn't change my personal conclusion that interacting with him in the political and sociological subforums would seldom be a wise idea.

Maybe the off-topic subforums would be safe.

 

[Xelor]

My brain doesn't process the response known as embarrassment. I couldn't be embarrassed if I wanted to. I only understand what I can read about the concept.

It's actually a manifestation of autism.

Okay....

The only thing I'm a bit unsure of is whether it is conditioning from being ridiculed my whole life or biological. Constant exposure to something leads to desensitization. I'm thinking biological because I'm still affected by social exclusion, but not embarrassment.

Do you actually have something meaningful you want to discuss, other than yourself?

I'm asking because you above asserted that your brain's inability to "process the response known as embarrassment" is "a manifestation of autism." Either you're autistic or you aren't. Go to a psychologist and find out if you don't know. You will not obtain a credible diagnosis on this website.

 

[SDET]

This does explain some things.

One event that I will never forget. When I was 10, I bugged my parents into a road trip to Mexico City. My old man got tired and stopped the motor home in this rural area near Saltillo to take a nap. These kids my age came from out of nowhere. I shared some marshmallows with them and they were glad to see me. One of them was even a girl. We played for a good couple of hours. It kind of set the tone for the rest of my life.

 

[SDET]

Do you actually have something meaningful you want to discuss, other than yourself?

I'm asking because you above asserted that your brain's inability to "process the response known as embarrassment" is "a manifestation of autism." Either you're autistic or you aren't. Go to a psychologist and find out if you don't know. You will not obtain a credible diagnosis on this website.

I am fully diagnosed. I have even used Federal law and the EEOC to force a past employer to provide better circumstances.

 

[Grand Mal]

Blue:
Yes, in much the same way that autism does.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
-- Robert Burns, "To Louise"​

(grin!)
Was Louise a louse?

 

[Xelor]

I am fully diagnosed. I have even used Federal law and the EEOC to force a past employer to provide better circumstances.

I have no idea what to make of that remark, but I do know I'm bored talking about you. I don't care about you.

Do you have something else you care to discuss?

 

[Xelor]

(grin!)
Was Louise a louse?

Touche. LOL

My bad typo...really bad. TY for the catch, though it's too late for me to correct it.

 

[Grand Mal]

Touche. LOL

My bad typo...really bad. TY for the catch, though it's too late for me to correct it.

(grin!)
I know it because familiarity with Burns is an ethnic imperative. In my best days I could recite 'A Man's A Man For A' That.'

 

[SDET]

I have no idea what to make of that remark, but I do know I'm bored talking about you. I don't care about you.

Do you have something else you care to discuss?

I respect your honesty. Most people's "caring" is fake. It reminds me of the song "Smiling Faces" (sometimes, they don't tell the truth).

 

[Parrish]

Blue:
Yes, in much the same way that autism does.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie us
To see oursels as others see us!
It wad frae monie a blunder free us,
An' foolish notion.
-- Robert Burns, "To Louise"​

It's Burns' Ode to a Louse written after seeing a louse crawling on a lady's bonnet while in church.
To a Louse, On Seeing one on a Lady?s Bonnet at Church | Poetry | Scottish Poetry Library