Ah! Transactional Analysis.

   Yes, I grew up in an environment where that was everywhere I
   went, although I didn't know its name. I absorbed a lot of it as
   true and it has become part of my... lingo I suppose, in a
   shortened fashion.

   Related, on the back of the toilet growing up was a book,
   "Scripts People Play". Elementary school kid, bored during a
   long sit, I read it. Over and over, because it just sat there.
   Easy stuff. We're all but players on a stage, reciting our parts
   and we forgot it was all but a play. Shakespeare revisited,
   although I learned the pop psych before I learned the
   Shakespeare it was based on.

   The I'm ok/not ok, we mocked openly in school. There were
   posters EVERYWHERE about it. It was THE THING that was going to
   cure all the ills of society.

   Yet, I absorbed some of it. Oddly enough, it softened relations
   with many people and turned out to be a practical way to relate
   to people socially who were causing problems. Do I believe it on
   a deep down level? Not really. But it's practical. There's the
   American again. I've never done well with inference. It does not
   come naturally to me. Perhaps a cognitive flaw.

   Example:
   [I'm an evidence guy. I like tangible things]

   Here is my 7th grade (age 13) standardized test. All is fine,
   typical stuff, nothing spectacular. But notice: What's that left
   bar?
   LISTENING COMPREHENSION.30-60%.

   I know exactly where I was flawed in that portion of the test,
   as it was _always_ the place I was "flawed" on these tests:

   "WHAT IS THE AUTHORS INTENT?"
   "WHAT IS THE BEST TITLE FOR THIS PIECE?"
   ETC.

   Inference.
   Mind-reading.
   Never good at it. I'm like an alien plopped down in a society
   full of people who think they understand intentions. There is a
   lot unwritten and unspoken when one infers. It is perhaps why
   programming always appealed to me. You have lay EVERYTHING out
   on the table without assumptions because assumptions don't allow
   a program to work. Clarity does. Perhaps, given my lack of
   clarity in using the language you use properly, you could
   classify my way of thinking properly for me.
   I suspect I engage in:
   [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abductive_reasoning
   as opposed to inductive or deductive. Would this seem to be the
   case?

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