i find this contradiction of the term very bothersome.
traditionally extroversion with a deficit of introversion is associated with related defense mechanisms, which are narcissism and the choleric temperament, borderline, anti-social PD (which is however not a defense reaction tho), hysteria and probably bipolarity (all reactions belonging to different extroverted types). but narcissism and borderline and anti-social are described as being coincided with a lack of empathy, which is precisely the lack of introversion, not at all a lack of extroversion. all of these characters are somewhat manipulative, of people or at least their situation (as in mania, there is magical, intuitive manifestation), so there is abundant extroversion.
nevertheless, there is no good word to describe the original developmental problem, the lack of introversion AKA empathy, which leads to defense mechanisms, such as narcissism.
(a short description of what i mean by narcicism: you define yourself as what you do and are unaware of the introverted subjectivity of how you value what you do as being the best thing that anyone could possibly do, just because it is your own choice - you justfy the conviction that your deed is the best thing to do, by seeking objective external faults in what other people do or by simply denying that they have any subjective reason to do what they do, as you are blind to their subjective needs).
in a group of supposedly autistic people, i find a ton of narcissistic individuals: some feeling type borderline narcissists, some thinking types, probably INTJ and ENTJ. some of those are highly narcissistic, but some are actually rather sane, in the sense that they do not maintain any obvious defense narratives, self-righteousness, superiority. they admit to their deficit of introversion, without quite conceptualizing it as such and they call it autism.
these people may be bank directors but have no friends. like einstein, they may have a wife and kids, but dont really know how to relate to human subjects. they take care of material needs, without difficulty, because they find their way around in the world with ease. they see situations clearly and objectively. extroverted thinking or extroverted perception. entp, intp, esfp, estp, etc.... in the case of borderline narcicists, they may hang out in swinger clubs and appreciate the mechanical directness and blutness of connections, they may shy away from more intimate connections, as it would unveil their difficulties with reflecting on what they want, who they are, etc.
but traditionally, so called aspies are highly sensitive, highly reflective introverts, much like myself, unless i am projecting. INFJ and INFP with shizoid defense mechanism. INTP and ISTP on occasion. people who cant extrovert at all, who never understand what is going on around them, what anyone is up to. can't even sort out the noise of voices.
so it seems like autism and aspies were once the opposite of each other.
but now the terminology is conflated. the autists identify with aspi and officially aspi has been renamed to autism. i hate this paradigm.
a deficit of a particular line or area of intelligence leads to neurological overload, when life is demanding the use of this kind of intelligence.
another example of this strange conflation of terminology is that overload is now associated with a choleric loss of temper. its understandable that a small child of any type will start to cry and shout in anger and frustration, whenever it is overwhelmed in any way at all.
but when a grown up is reacting like this, he must have a particularly poorly developed introversion, for not having a grasp on his enactment.
its like the choleric temperament of all narcissists is now conflated with the word autism.
i have neurological overload all the time, usually associated with embarrassment or anxiety of transgressions. i can feel much hidden wrath against transgressors, but any emotions of mine are totally unrelated to meltdown. my meltdown occurs from overthinking the difficulties of the interaction, its purely mental and a problem of understanding. i do not have intuitive clarity on how the situation is, realistically. no closure. i cant tell if inferior extroverted feeling or poor extroverted perception, probably both.
some people have purely sensory overload, just because of random physical stimulus, like noise and visual details flashing by. this is very rare for me. they may have inferior extroverted sensation.
autism can be anything today. it looks like a conspiracy of psychiatry, to diagnose everyone on demand, in arbitrary ways, to take away legal responsibility, to force decisions on people, such as perhaps vaccinations or chemo therapies or to take away various liberties.
