{"id":1404,"date":"2013-09-07T10:32:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-07T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1404"},"modified":"2013-09-07T10:32:00","modified_gmt":"2013-09-07T18:32:00","slug":"social-sensitivity-or-its-lack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=1404","title":{"rendered":"Social Sensitivity (or its lack)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many qualities are enjoyed or missed by various people according to the varying distribution of talents. Howard Gardner, a psychologist, in 1983&#160; wrote about eight that he identified in his book, Frames of Mind. One of these, interpersonal intelligence, is the focus here. My career in part is a healing of the wound, a compensation for what was a problem for me. I\u2019m not good at people skills&#8212;they confuse me. Others are much worse and don\u2019t care, or much better. I\u2019m around 48% on a scale from totally out of it to rather sensitive and at ease. I have a rather mild case of social insensitivity. Here\u2019s a cartoon by Scott Adams, about Dilbert, an engineer. <a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dork1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"dork1\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dork1\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dork1_thumb.jpg\" width=\"491\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I mean, why doesn\u2019t the guy just say, \u201cplease stop explaining\u201d if he already knew or wasn\u2019t interested? Because he assumes that everyone else can read subtle nonverbal cues. Duh. But it turns out that reading, like dyslexia, is not as apparent to some people. It\u2019s also one of a great many variables to be considered as a mind-spectrum.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dork2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"dork2\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: left; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"dork2\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/dork2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"242\" height=\"246\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alas, this has been a handicap I didn\u2019t know about until it was too late. Well, it all turned out okay, but there were some rough patches.<\/p>\n<p>Although this is humorous, I think variations of social sensitivity contribute greatly to psycho-social dysfunction, even if it is mild. I call attention to this to my colleagues in the mental health fields. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many qualities are enjoyed or missed by various people according to the varying distribution of talents. Howard Gardner, a psychologist, in 1983&#160; wrote about eight that he identified in his book, Frames of Mind. One of these, interpersonal intelligence, is the focus here. My career in part is a healing of the wound, a compensation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,35,11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiographical","category-mind-spectrums","category-literacy","category-social-depth-psychology-sociometry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1405,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1404\/revisions\/1405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}