What I noticed in that moment was my own immediate knee-jerk need to assign a cause. In this instance, we might make the words cause and blame interchangeable. Blame is something like an accusation of causation, and it answers the pointed question, "why did this happen?"
Once upon a time there was a Chinese farmer whose horse ran away. That evening, all of his neighbors came around to commiserate. They said, “We are so sorry to hear your horse has run away. This is most unfortunate.” The farmer replied, “Maybe.”
When we ask the question why, we are inquiring about the causes of things. It is my hypothesis that those of who are neuro-deviant have a special relationship with causality, and I think it has a profound effect on the way we experience our world and the way we spend our metabolic resources.
