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**Mxsmanic** · July 2nd 08, 04:24 PM posted to rec.aviation.student,rec.aviation.piloting

writes:

It is drawn from the body of your postings, a self consistent image
supported by your writings on your web site as well. Your comments
regarding saunas, like so many others of your typings, just supports
my observation. One need not have all of the pieces of a jig saw
puzzle to begin reaching a conclusion about the final scene.

Your mistake is in believing that there is a fixed correlation between flying,
enduring extreme temperatures, socializing, etc., and happiness. There isn't.
Many of the things that make many people happy (particularly the extroverts)
do nothing for me, and so I don't do those things. I am not any less happy in
consequence. If they made me happy, I would do them, but they don't. There
are many people in the world with similar attitudes, even if we are not the
majority.

For example, I occasionally turn down invitations for social events because I
enjoy flight simulation or other relatively solitary activities, and
socialization for its own sake tends to bore me. And while most people seem
to enjoy travel, I hate it, and so I turn down even opportunites for travel
with all expenses paid. I could cite many other examples.

One of the problems with extroverts is the difficulty they seem to have in
understanding any viewpoint other than their own. Anyone who doesn't want to
spend every free evening drinking to a stupor in a local pub with friends
while engaging in incredibly boring small talk is labeled a sufferer of
Asperger's syndrome.

It is interesting to note that piloting an aircraft is often a very solitary
activity. Perhaps private pilots are defective because they prefer flying to
other, more extroverted activities.