Beyond Mr. Spock & Logic

Conjecture

• When we see somebody like Brittany Griner ---- she is NOT HETEROSEXUAL and she doesn't look like the majority of women ---
  • yet she is a woman --- I don't think we need to take it PERSONALLY OR AS INSULT that people are CONFUSED.
  • I also don't think we have to DENY REALITY either.

 

• People are coming in a lot of "PACKAGES" that people are NOT EXPECTING and especially given some of our SEXUAL STEREOTYPES and STEREOTYPES IN GENERAL

 

• What I'm wanting to consider is that NEURO-DIVERSE HETERO-SEXUAL male or female who may be a little more EXTREME and what I'm wanting to throw out there are:
  • LANGUAGE ABILITIES,
  • LOGIC ABILITIES and
  • VISUAL-SPATIAL THINKING.

 

• Feminists of the 1970s were an INTENSE BREED and most sad to me was that they were relying on some guy to VALIDATE THEM (to say they were "EQUAL") and what they valued were GUY THINGS.
  • I can do anything you can do better.

 

• This is NOT NECESSARILY GOING WHERE YOU THINK IT IS.

 

• Things are NOT ALWAYS AS THEY APPEAR.

 

• Through a big part of human history --- women haven't been taught to read ---
  • Not all girls and women --- but many to most are better readers than boys and men.

 

• When we think about VERBAL LANGUAGE certainly ---
  • a lot of information is being conveyed by TONE
  • what is regulating that TONE is often some type of EMOTIONAL RESPONSE to INFORMATION and/or the ENVIRONMENT.

 

• Further, some Mental Health Apps are trying to key off of TONE OF VOICE as an indicator of mental health issues ---
  • and at least one study suggests that most arguments are more about TONE OF VOICE than SUBSTANCE.

 

• Historically, we've thought that people who were VERY EMOTIONAL were VERY ILLOGICAL --
  • Women have been hit with this a lot --
  • But some men, too

 

• Further, if you start equating being UNEMOTIONAL with being LOGICAL which we do ----
  • We have a tendency to SKIP the LOGIC Part and just try to appear UNEMOTIONAL.

 

• What I'm trying to get at is --- I don't think EMOTIONAL EQUATES TO ILLOGICAL.

 

• WHAT ELSE AM I TRYING TO GET AT?
  • I do think EMOTION is a little like FIRE
    • Is it a good thing or a bad thing ---
      • IT DEPENDS

 

• I don't think it is any accident that we sometimes refer to people with "mental illness" as being "TOUCHED BY FIRE."
  • Further, a lot of people with Neuro-Developmental Disorders got that "GIFTED LABEL" before that LATE DIAGNOSIS

 

• We used to use the word MATHEMATICS --- but in the US --- it's MATH
  • In Britain --- it's "MATHS"
    • and I've come to think that is IMPORTANT. 
    • For me personally, ALGEBRA does help with REASONING --- but it is not the only TOOL I'm using.

 

• To me, LOGIC is something that you practice in BOTH LANGUAGE and MATHEMATICS.

 

• EMOTION is NOT SYNONYMOUS with EITHER LOGIC or ILLOGIC
  • Emotion is part of the REASONING PROCESS
  • Generally, NOT ALWAYS  ---
    • Females can take on MORE EMOTION than Males ---
      • Before things start to really go off the RAILS ---
      • BUT that's NOT UNLIMITED 

To me, we all have to be CAREFUL with EMOTIONAL OVERWHELM and the threshhold for some men is less than for some women.

Brittany Griner
Photo Credit:  Wall Street Journal

The ICON of UNEMOTIONAL RATIONALITY & LOGIC ---

Mr. Spock from the Star Trek TV Series 1966-1969

I don't really have a problem with someone wanting to pair UNEMOTIONAL DEMEANOR with LOGIC ---
What I really have a problem with is--- putting on a FACADE of UNEMOTIONALITY and  FORGETTING  THE LOGIC.

On the other hand --- I don't particularly like to deal with people who are IMPLODING or EXPLODING --- although if there is some LOGIC (there often isn't) --- I'll try to work through it with you.

BOTTOM LINE:  I'm probably more LOGICAL than you are --- If pushed --- I will prove it.

I used to be TOO POLITE to point that out --- I'm not anymore.

• Especially for people who were supposed to be on my TEAM

I don't think it is just NEURO-DIVERSE Wpmen who are often TOO POLITE ---

• for a lot of Neuro-Diverse people POLITENESS was an UNCONSCIOUS COMPENSATORY STRATEGY for Executive Functioning Challenges.
• I think we need to get EDUCATED & HONEST about our EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING CHALLENGES ---
  • And stop putting up with people walking all over us.

1970s Feminism Timeline

Gostudylink.com
Women Are Better Language Learners

SlideServe

Mayo Clinic
Emotional Exhuastion

This represents a lot of FRUSTRATION over DECADES ----
BUT the Truth is during most of that time I DID NOT KNOW I had Executive Functioning Differences ---

• What I did know was that I had Substantive Abilities that were often above those around me.
  

FURTHER

• These people that I am SO FRUSTRATED WITH ---
  
• If the TRUTH be told  --- often were contending with their own Neuro-Diversity.