No damned idea if I’m autistic, but I do view humanity like an alien anthropologist.
I have had the misfortune of spending my school years in the company of many people who are now politicians, captains of industry, princes, doctors, lawyers, and all the rest. I say misfortune, because it means that I absolutely distrust all of the above, as every exemplar I have personally known has been one variety or another of common-or-garden idiot.
Doctors - I cannot fathom how people put their faith in these unimaginative individuals who followed a default career path and squeaked their way through medical school on charisma alone.
Politicians - every one a self-serving charlatan.
Captains of industry - daddy bought me a newspaper.
Lawyers - see also: doctors.
Princes - thankfully harmless, but good lord, what they used to have run countries. Pudding between the ears.
I can’t trust any authority, as I have seen behind too many curtains - although I never did, even before the denouements - I never respected any rule or order which couldn’t be reasonably and justly explained.
I wonder how others look upon you. Especially from your school days. And what they say about the entirety of the populace who've chosen to enter your occupation, on the basis of you as a teenager...
My chosen occupation is hermit, and I honestly don’t give a damn. Why would I care about the judgment of someone who I deem contemptible?
Unfortunately, my life since my schooldays has only exacerbated my cynicism - I have yet to encounter a competent medic, a lawyer whose work I didn’t have to check and correct, tradespeople who know the first thing about their erstwhile craft, or a business leader I didn’t run rings around. When I see people who I knew on television talking about the glorious future for their party and the country, and recall their proclivities for self-aggrandisement and shameless dishonesty, my toes curl.
When I do encounter competent and able people, they are invariably being used by someone with more Machiavellian tendencies than themselves.
The world is almost entirely run by blowhards - not the most competent or qualified people, yet those who shout the loudest.
So I am a hermit. My world is 20 hectares of woodland and endless projects, where I am well away from the ship of fools, and have scarce dependence on the competence of others.
I have had the misfortune of spending my school years in the company of many people who are now politicians, captains of industry, princes, doctors, lawyers, and all the rest. I say misfortune, because it means that I absolutely distrust all of the above, as every exemplar I have personally known has been one variety or another of common-or-garden idiot.
Doctors - I cannot fathom how people put their faith in these unimaginative individuals who followed a default career path and squeaked their way through medical school on charisma alone.
Politicians - every one a self-serving charlatan.
Captains of industry - daddy bought me a newspaper.
Lawyers - see also: doctors.
Princes - thankfully harmless, but good lord, what they used to have run countries. Pudding between the ears.
I can’t trust any authority, as I have seen behind too many curtains - although I never did, even before the denouements - I never respected any rule or order which couldn’t be reasonably and justly explained.