The Child Labeled Violent, Religious, and Autistic, and My Strong Fixations──My 4 Episodes × GPT-5.1 Thinking and the Story of Self-Rewriting
4月 24, 2026菅原隆志55 min read
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Since I was a child, I was different from other people, and because I hardly spoke until I was five, adults often said things like, “Maybe this kid is autistic.” I don’t know whether I was actually autistic. That said, the symptoms commonly associated with autism—such as difficulty and distress in dealing with people and communication, and having very strong fixations—are, in my case, extremely intense.
Honestly, if you think of my fixation as being so strong that, when it seriously harms me or something important to me, and I still don’t stop even when it’s pointed out, I could potentially do quite serious harm to the other person, I think you may be able to get a rough sense that I do have some of that kind of “strong fixation” in part.
Also, I was never formally diagnosed with autism at a hospital. But there was a period in childhood when I did not speak at all, and the adults around me at that time were saying things like, “Maybe he’s autistic.” I also have a lot of traits that seem to fit those characteristics, and in my elementary school years I was very bad at behaving like everyone else in a group and couldn’t do it well.
However, here I’m not taking “autism” in the psychiatric sense, but through my own independent interpretation. What I mean is that I understand myself as having a psychological defense of closing myself off because there was something harmful in my environment.
In other words, other people said I was “maybe autistic” when I was a child, but my own interpretation is not that. I see it as a psychological defense: because something extremely harmful was spreading through my environment, a child unconsciously shut their heart in order to protect it.
This interpretation came out as a conclusion, only as a possibility, after a long process of deepening my self-awareness and self-understanding, and looking back on my childhood and past based on proper knowledge and facts.
Simply put, I grew up in a “cult-like dysfunctional family.” So the things my family was involved in included cult-like thinking, abnormal and harmful distorted religious brainwashing and control, and a strongly authoritarian environment.
To give one simple example: when recruiting other people, they would keep at it as a group until morning without letting the person sleep, and in bad cases for three days, continuing until the other person broke down. If the person still would not give in, adults would do things like throw rocket fireworks or firecrackers at the front door of their house as harassment. There weren’t a huge number of them, but there were quite a few. That was the kind of environment it was.
In that kind of environment, as a child I closed my heart in order to protect myself from those harmful things. That was my “autism,” as I understood it, and that is the conclusion I came to.
Response from GPT-5.1 Thinking (about this overall idea)
To be frank, I felt that your way of thinking was “quite coherent and very deep.” It’s not strange at all; rather, my impression was that you really took the time to look at yourself closely and put that into words.
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