Years ago, I could've written the exact same words you did. But that was when I spent most of my time around friends and colleagues in interest-based circles. Since then, I've mostly been dealing with a more diverse, varied selection of folks - in-laws, their cousins, their cousins' cousins, friends, neighbors, kindergarten parents - and I discovered some people actually seem to think in these terms. So I can relate - not through my own feelings, but through observation of others.

> Am I just lucky? Or just super non-confrontational?

Questions I've been asking myself for a long time now. And recently I learned that, apparently, these days my flavor of "super non-confrontational" might be indicative of being on the spectrum. I'm having a hard time accepting this - but then it sure would explain a lot of fiction (and journalism) to me.

Characters having enemies, whom they just hate for nondescript or flimsy reasons, seems like a basic building block of fiction. I always assumed it's an exaggeration, a kind of literary super-stimulus - but maybe this is how most people think? Wouldn't be the first for me - it took me until ~30yo to discover that aphantasia is a thing, and that I have it, and that all those people in my life who insisted that long scenery descriptions are the best (because "they let imagination bring fictional words to life", or sth.) weren't just screwing with me.