Aralık 23, 2025
Durumlara bütünsel olarak baktığımda neden kişisel sorumluluk almıyorum gibi görünüyorum?
Okumaya gerek kalmaması için özetlemeye çalışacağım, ancak bu, yazdığım farklı bir yazının devamı niteliğindeki başka bir yazıdır. "Son 12 yıldaki başarısız yüksek öğrenim deneyimime dayanarak uyum sağladığımda neden insanlar zihniyetimin bir sorun olduğunu söylüyor?"
Bir süredir gönderilerimi takip eden diğer kişilerle yaptığım alışverişin yanı sıra, özellikle CMV başlığındaki konuşmadan sonra her zaman iyi bir açıklama yapmaya çalışacağım. Hemen bununla başlayacağım. Geçtiğimiz Ağustos ayında aldığım bir doktoram var, ancak eğitim ve iş deneyimlerim başarısızlıktan başka bir şey değildi. Bunu göründüğü gibi kabul edemiyorsanız, o zaman orijinal yazıyı okumanızı tavsiye ederim, böylece burada tam olarak neden bahsettiğimi görebilirsiniz. Ancak bu deneyimlerin başarılı olduğu ve bunun farkına varmadığım yönünde bir yorum bırakmamanızı rica ediyorum çünkü diğer yazıyı okursanız inanın bana bu doğru değil. Bu başarısızlıkların çoğu kısmen nörodiverjan koşullarımdan (ASD seviye 1, DEHB-I, motor disgrafi ve 3. yüzdelik işlem hızı) kaynaklanıyor ve şu anda fark ettiğim şey muhtemelen benim için diğer olası sorunların yanı sıra zayıf öz farkındalıktır (yalnızca kendim ve etrafımdaki dünya hakkındaki her şeyi yeniden değerlendirdiğim için mümkün olduğunu söylüyorum).
Başlayacağım şeylerden biri, başkalarından aldığım, herhangi bir sorumluluk veya hesap verebilirlik almadığım yönündeki geri bildirimlerdir. Katılmıyorum ve öyle olduğunu düşünüyorum; bunun nedeni, her şeyi kendime yüklemek yerine, durumlara bütünsel olarak bakmamdır. Örneğin, bir mağaza memuru pozisyonu için bir röportajdan yeni çıktım (ve 200 kiloluk halim bir otoparkta 8 kat merdiven çıktığı için bu yazıyı yazmamın nedeni budur) ve ofisi bulmadan 10 dakika geç kaldım. Daha erken gelmem gerektiğini itiraf edeceğim. Ancak aynı zamanda ziyaretçi kartı almam gerektiğini de bilmiyordum (yönergelerde öyle yazmıyordu) ve bu da gecikmeye katkıda bulundu. Geç kaldığım için özür diledim ve bırakmadan önce elini kaldırdım ve endişelenmememi söyledim. Onun dürüst olabileceğinin ya da olmayabileceğinin farkındayım (her iki şekilde de okuyamıyorum), ancak diğer tarafta potansiyel olarak anlayabilecek biri var. Biliyorum ki eğer ailem geç kaldığımı öğrenirse, görüşmeyi yapan kişinin hiçbir şekilde sert davranmayacağını ve sadece buna dayanarak beni işe almayacağını varsayarlardı. Bu görüşmeci ayrıca önümüzdeki iki hafta boyunca adaylarla da röportaj yapacak, bu yüzden beni hatırlamayabilir ve sadece özgeçmişleri incelemeyi tercih edebilir.
Bu aynı zamanda, durumu hafifletmek için her zaman neyi farklı yapabileceklerini düşündüğümden, birlikte drama yaşadığım diğer kişilerde de sürekli olarak yaşandı. Tekrar ediyorum, hata yapmadım demiyorum. Sadece burada daha fazlası var. Benden başka herkesin bu konuda nasıl gezinileceğine dair bazı notları olması ve bunların hepsinin spekülasyon olması nedeniyle paylaşmayacağım nedenlerden dolayı yapmadığım için, lisansüstü okul deneyimimin eksikliği hakkında da benzer şeyler hissediyorum.
Peki durumlara bütünsel olarak baktığımda neden sorumluluk almıyor gibi görünüyorum? Kendi adıma biliyorum, daha sonra çok yönlü ve bazılarının kontrolüm dışında olduğunu fark edeceğim durumlar nedeniyle gençken kendime eziyet etmek için nedenler bulurdum. Sorumluluk alma konusunda ısrar eden diğerlerinin benim yeniden kendime eziyet etmemi isteyeceğini hissediyorum. Durumlara bütünsel olarak bakmak, kendime zarar vermekten tamamen kaçınmamı sağladı ve bunun zararlı olmaktan çok yararlı olduğunu iddia ediyorum. Yine, burada varsayımlarla birlikte boş bir sayfa açarak belirtiyorum, dolayısıyla burada başka bir bakış açısı duymaya açığım.
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You don’t actually think of situations holistically. You catastrophize often, and often worry about things that aren’t under your control, and seem to have trouble prioritizing how to plan and prepare for things. Don’t confuse that with thinking that you consider things holistically. You know of yourself that you’re bad at understanding context. Being able to consider a situation holistically *means* being able to understand how it fits into a bigger context, which you admit you have trouble doing.
Your example of the store interview is actually (contrary to what you think it is) a perfect example of lacking personal responsibility!
Personal responsibility and accountability has to do with what *you* have control over. Responsibility is not about whether other factors existed. It’s about what part of the whole situation was still yours to manage. Understanding how your responsibility fits into the bigger picture is holistic thinking, which you haven’t done in this example.
You were late, and you were late because of your own failings to look up the parking situation beforehand, get there early (you should always be early to important meetings to avoid exactly this), locating the building, having an idea where the room might be in the building, how long it takes you to walk or climb stairs, planned in ways to mitigate delays, etc.. etc.. These are things under your control. In this situation, ***you are to blame for being late***. When you have an important meeting like an interview, planning to get there on time and executing it is your responsibility. It is wrong, ethically wrong, to think that other people need to accommodate you for failings of your own responsibility.
Suppose you had been hit by a car on the way there, that is an absolutely blameless (to you) reason to be late, because you could not have planned or done anything to prevent that kind of mishap. Being late in this way is not due to a failure of your personal responsibility, because that’s not something that was under your control.
Personal responsibility refers to what *you are responsible for*. You should not consider what other people could have done differently to mitigate your issues. That’s not your responsibility. That’s theirs. You always shift the focus to other people’s responsibility, such as thinking that the interviewer should excuse your lateness and accommodate you, making your lateness his responsibility. **That is ethically wrong!** You do this to avoid personal responsibility. This is not holistic thinking.
This is not a “gotcha” as you often complain about. But *it is* just another in a long line of examples that I point out to you where your reasoning and logic is faulty. This time, it’s not a direct contradiction upon itself, but rather your fault lies in conflation of various concepts.
I don’t think people are asking you to self-bash. They’re pointing out that explaining *why* something happened isn’t the same as taking responsibility for the part that was still yours to manage.
You are confusing three different things and getting them mixed up in various ways:
1. Self-blame
2. Contextual explanation
3. Personal responsibility
You’ve spent years self-blaming and now you have swung too hard in the opposite direction and you treat any focus on your own responsibility in things as a return to self-bashing. Again, you’re fear driven. (I suspect that if you can ever get over your fear driven instincts, something will click for you. It’s what happened to me in my early 30s.)
This really isn’t about autism, ADHD, or grad school. You escaped toxic self-blame (which is good), but you haven’t yet learned non-punitive personal accountability. So any pressure to own outcomes feels like moral danger to you. Until the distinction between these various things clicks, you’ll keep re-litigating the same issue with new examples, and you’ll never get anywhere. You’re stuck arguing over the same set of experiences you’ve had, but that won’t change anything for you substantively. It’s more evidence that mindset change can help.
Hey, ive seen this reposted about a half dozen times, are you sure youre not just fishing for an answer that you want to hear? To be fair I haven’t read your post since the CMV variant but typically when someone reposts this much, thats what they’re looking for. Might be worth sitting down and doing some introspective meditations and think about what you’re trying to hear from someone else.
There are three things:
1) Life has a lot of randomness, but how you interact with that randomness is not out of your control. Life is, to a very large degree, about how you manage uncertainty. You didn’t know you would need a parking pass. But you *did* know that you did not know how parking would work, what traffic would be like, etc.
Being reliable and getting consistently good outcomes in life is about tracking that kind of uncertainty and building buffers around it. When you plan something, you build in a buffer based on how much uncertainty you have and how much you care about the outcome.
For example, when going to the airport, I know the road there sucks and there can sometimes be accidents. I could just leave assuming there will not be an accident, because most of the time there isn’t. But I don’t accept a, say, 5% chance of missing my flight, so I buffer enough time that I could get there on backroads with traffic if I had to. And then I plan on doing work on my laptop at the airport when I’m an hour early, instead of burning that time before leaving.
2) The world is complicated, we all have a ton of problems, are all busy and focused on our own things, and we all need to work together anyway. You have your own complicated life with a bunch of complicated problems, and so does everyone else. If you have to work with 100 other people you can’t possibly internalize all of their problems and reason about how they all relate to your problems. Instead, we all agree to be accountable for some particular outcomes, and then we all manage how to get the outcomes ourselves, so that we all don’t have to go insane trying to reason about every problem related to everyone we know. This minimizes the number of problems we all have to deal with, lets us focus instead of be mentally broken by trying to keep track of every problem in the world. Of course, the closer you are with someone, the more tangled you will be with them. My problems are my partner’s problems. But my coworkers do not share that responsibility.
3) internal locus of self control, how much ownership you take for what happens in your life, is one of the best predictors of long term wellbeing. People who externalize problems, describe their life as a series of external causes, end up less happy, less healthy, with worse outcomes along pretty much every measurement you could possibly take. The research is even pretty clear about the mechanism by which externalization causes bad outcomes. People who describe their health outcomes as random are more likely to eat unhealthy food, neglect fitness, not go to a doctor, etc.
Similarly, if you think of being late as not your fault, you will not plan correctly, and you will be late more often. This applies to everything you externalize.
Therefore, the most pro-social thing to do is to focus on the things we can control and how they help us get the outcomes we want. By encouraging people to externalize their problems, to frame their life as outside of their control, you hurt them long term by pushing them to live with their problems instead of fixing them.
Regardless of what made you late on this occasion, is there something you could do differently next time you get offered an interview to make sure you get there 10 minutes early?
i read all the posts you’re referencing prior to answering this. also i’m professionally diagnosed autistic.
the answer is not really that you lack “self awareness” in the traditional sense, but that you lack an understanding that you are not the center of the universe. no one owes you anything. no one is out to get you or has issues with you that they need to air on reddit.
why do people think you lack accountability? because you have a list of excuses for why so and so and so didn’t work out for you. it’s never your fault, it’s somebody else’s or some other external force. you’re shouting into the void about how everything that has gone wrong with your life is not your fault because xyz. and you’re somehow confused why no one is sympathetic to this and going out of their way to assist with your problems.
you simply misunderstand your place in the world. we’re all just people trying our best in our own lives. no one is going to hold your hand and carry you to the job of your dreams. the faster you realize that you are responsible for you, the easier life is going to be for you.
my best advice for you is to stop picking fights with people online, stop making lists of excuses why you haven’t succeeded. start making a list of 3 things you’ll do daily to improve yourself and hold yourself accountable to accomplishing those things. it could be anything: seeing a career counselor, going to the gym, reading a book on personal development. but don’t do anything else that day until those 3 things are done.
every day you do this and learn to hold yourself accountable for the things you want for yourself, the more you will grow. it has nothing to do with other people; it’s you dawg. you have the power to change. so you should.