1/I get it I do- but in DBT and other forms of therapy, black and white are simply opposites, there is no good or bad attached to it. like emotion and logic, neither are bad or good, both are needed
2025-03-23 23:01:08
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user8736553262136 :
Huh? “Black & white thinking” … meaning, you have no greyscale…also known as, all-or-nothing …what you said… like “badness”… I have no idea what you are talking about. Right??? I think.
2025-03-24 17:26:28
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Valkyrie :
I’m autistic and I thought it was bc of print. Classic black and white, printed law book-esque. By the rules, black and white thinking, etc.
2025-03-24 06:06:37
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mBOYD18 :
My therapist calls it “all or nothing thinking” and that makes more sense anyway 😅
2025-03-23 21:32:23
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farrfromhometravels :
No it doesn’t mean good and bad. It means there’s no shades of grey.
2025-03-24 15:50:31
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Kaligirwa :
I use cognitive inflexibility
2025-03-24 00:45:43
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puhuhl :
I always thought of black and white as opposites, not really good or bad, but extreme ends of the spectrum. Though that may be my autistic brain, since inflexible thinking is a diagnostic criteria and
2025-03-24 10:59:20
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Morgan Foley🧚♀️ :
I always thought of it as only having two definitive options with the inability to see grey or like nuance. But u make a good point about black equaling bad in these sorts of expressions. I’m going
2025-03-23 19:17:31
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Rachel 🇮🇪 :
This is a chronically online take
2025-03-24 17:02:35
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bananamaryy :
I want to be with you on this and enjoy your content, but I really do think this is a massive reach, respectfully.
2025-03-24 17:24:53
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LeesieLex :
Lord these comments are frustrating AF for me. Can't imagine how the creator feels. Y'all really think she has never heard or understood that it means all or nothing, no gray area, no nuance: SHE KNOW
2025-03-24 12:37:16
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Bodb :
but black and white thinking doesn't mean good and bad or right and wrong???
2025-03-24 17:52:20
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Saltwater and Ink :
Thing for people to read: White light Black magic: racism in esoteric thought. It goes DEEP into the racism of the color spectrum and how they applied it to morality.
2025-03-23 21:26:17
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solablock :
my first thought was “this isn’t a big deal”. then “if it isn’t a big deal then why am i defensive about it?” then “it’s probably cause its a big deal”
2025-03-24 04:58:25
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Q12222 :
That is not what this phrase mean
2025-03-24 13:37:00
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Alex :
I thought it meant a person is ignoring all nuance. Like they don’t care about hearing anyone’s opposing perspective they just have an extreme opinion on something and are unwilling to change 🤷🏻♀️
2025-03-25 14:22:44
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lurkingflamingo :
You: hey English has a lot of words, maybe use different ones. Synonyms are fun.
Them: Nooooooooo I can't stahhhhp
2025-03-24 21:10:58
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Skin :
black is a tone, outside of a term to describe race. I understand this can be a difficult concept, but black and white are opposite shades, and the phrase means no middle ground (grey)is this helpful?
2025-03-24 19:52:13
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Sagta :
Black and white thinking just implies a lack of nuance, like everything is either this or that and there’s boring in between.
2025-03-24 19:20:24
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indigo˚。⋆ °✩ :
does it not mean like all or nothing, in the sense of only black or white but no shades of grey? it’s not good or bad and means the spectrum of greys and not race? i could be wrong tho
2025-03-24 19:46:41
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Mollie✨ :
I understand why it might look this way. But black and white thinking usually doesn’t refer to the good or the bad thought. It’s just two ends of a spectrum and ignoring the in between
2025-04-05 01:57:22
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Cyanide :
So. Y’all don’t own the color black. Neither do we own the color white. I can’t quite believe I have to unironically use the phrase ‘chronically online’ but you might want to touch some green grass.
2025-03-24 09:40:15
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panda_mom_ium06 :
This put me in a rabbit hole of searches. I always used black, white, and grey. But blue, red, and purple could be used. I wonder if people would catch on to using those 3 colors.
2025-03-23 19:24:45
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LizzieButton3445 :
Is this satire? Black and white thinking is thinking that there is only good or bad, no *grey* area. Also in the phrasing, the black would be the good. Black and white, good and bad. Black and good-
2025-03-24 14:38:20
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lookslikeithasdyed :
the colours in "black and white thinking" aren't associated with good or bad. Just with polar opposites
2025-03-24 19:47:52
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