Critical Thinking

I seem to have a big problem with thinking critically. I remember seeing somewhere that this was a symptom of Asperger's. It's strange, however. I am usually good at thinking about things logically and coming to a good conclusion that sounds right to me, but i usually take the ideas and opinions from someone else. For instance, whenever someone asks me to go see a movie or ask me if a movie is bad or good, i will already have an opinion on it because i saw the score on Rotten Tomatoes. This automatically becomes my stubborn opinion. After this, it is very hard for me to change my mind about it. I can even trace most of my liberal leaning political beliefs to seeing Fahrenheit 9/11 in 2004. I became a full-fledged liberal after that, without even questioning the sources. Suffice to say, i made a lot of people mad with my manufactured opinions. I usually just accept things as facts. Most of the time, i don't know if someone is lying or presenting skewed information. This has also bled into my social life in a way.

I think i may have been deceiving myself at times for just picking up any opinion and making it my own. However, when it comes to questions of logic, i can be very formative in my unique opinions. It's things like movies, art, music, books, politics, and other things that are tied in emotion that i often have to steal an opinion for. I believe in evolution because it makes sense to me than creationism. I believe in socialism because it makes more sense to me than capitalism. But i cannot really tell you if a movie or book is good, i don't have that clear of a definition of it. I really can't lie and it makes me nervous to try, but if someone asks me, "what do you think of [artwork, movie, book]?" I'll usually just say, "it's good", because i think that sounds better than "I don't know". This is why i hate it when people ask me after a movie whether i liked it or not.

I have had a few critical thinking classes in college, and i am surprised at how well i did in them. I always seem to write a paper that is really slanted because i just end up sticking with one opinion, putting an opposite opinion in the paper frustrates me. For Film Theory, i basically copied and pasted whole opinions on movies into my papers, but not literally. I remember when i tried to write film reviews for Netflix, it was horrible. First off, i have serious trouble paraphrasing anything. Second, I can't ever really form an opinion on a movie without looking to another source. Lastly, i can never make it passionate enough to be convincing.