Do people confide in you more than they do most people?

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I remember one time, several years ago, while attending college, I was in the typical "politically correct environment" of the day. I suppose I expressed my alienations, frustrations, and rather jaded, totally unpolitically correct opinion in some way. After class, this beautiful blond woman insisted on talking to me and following me around. Of course, I couldn't dream that she was interested in me. Well, she started going on about how she is part Native American, and how part Native Americans don't get benefits. I was about to roll on the floor in hysterical laughter, because she looked more white than I do. Then, she started talking about how rough reservation life is for her friends on the reservation. It became apparent to me that the real reason she was talking to me was to imply "How dare you rain on my parade. White people don't have anything to complain about, and someone saw herself as above this all". That was long before I was diagnosed with autism. However, it seemed like the all too typical flaws of the new World of the late 80s and early 90s - if you don't belong to some visible "disability group", you will be pushed down and marginalized even more than you were in the bad old days.

this is difficult to answer (as are most questions i intend to answer seriously).

i have very few friends. most people are strangers to me, and i have no interest whatsoever in the story of their lives, but the very few friends i have had throughout my life have told me many unsavory truths about their actions in their lives.
they generally ask me to consider what they have told me, and they want me to report back to them concerning what i think about their "revelations".

i try to assess what they say to me and develop a response to return to them, but i am often roped into in-depth engagements of wit with them, and i really do not care about anything but getting back to my game or whatever else i wished to attend to.


people will bare their souls with me (in real life because they see me and interact with me) because they do not credit me with the ability to understand things on the level where they feel guilty about what they reveal.

they are correct in assuming that i have no moral attitudes toward anything (and therefore open to what they reveal), but they are incorrect in thinking that i care what happens in their head(mainly(mostly(almost always(but seldom not)))).

so in other words, "i do not know what to say in response to this thread"