Your Response Reflects Your Limitation

I think TV is a great teacher! American series, The Good Doctor, demonstrates that how we respond to other people is actually a reflection of --- our limitations, our prejudices, our triggers, our woundedness. Our personal strengths and weaknesses.

Dr Shaun Murphy is autistic. He suffers from this neurological condition that makes it difficult for him to "read" contexts (situations/people etc) People with autism rely on repetition. This makes them particularly good with detail and process. They get agitated when rituals are not followed. They find relationships particularly difficult because... well... people aren't logical, are we? Dr Shaun Murphy has savant syndrome. This means he operates at genius levels (in this case, medicine). In the movie The Accountant, Ben Afflect plays the genius accountant who is also a mercenary killer!

"How people behave is about them. How we behave is about us." When you understand this, you will see that there is no such thing as blame. No such thing as "I am better than you." When we understand that every time we make a choice, we display our power or lack of it, then we understand our power as co-creators on this planet. No one is better than us. No one is worse. We are all different.

In The Good Doctor, we see how other doctors look down on the young autistic surgeon. We see them stealing credit for his work. They take advantage of his simple-mind, his kindness and they mock him for being "slow" when in fact, he is genius (and genius in THEIR field of medicine!) See how appearances can fool people?

How many times have you (judged / looked down on / mocked / been less than polite to / made someone suffer / played mind games with) someone you believed was less (powerful / wealthy / capable) than you?

This TV show teaches me to keep my ego in check. What comes from us is ours. Yep. This means our behaviour, and our responses. It'll be on our scoreboard as our karma. Be very clear about this. There is no escaping. The Universe is a zero-sum game. We will always get what we deserve.