Are Aspies more trusting, more gullible?

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I found it through google.
http://www.cigna.com/healthinfo/zq1008.html

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I know that I am in general naive/gullible, (bitter experiance proves this) only to repeat the same mistake in a differnent scenario. If the situation appears familiar, then I tend to revert to being analytical. I never considered it as a trait before though.

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Used to be very naive and gullible...still occasionally fall victim to this, but because this resulted in me getting stomped on many times, I am now mostly the opposite and trust no-one and nothing...and no story.

Sadly, Yeah. That is ANOTHER AS symptom I have. I even referred to that a few times. I HAVE become CYNICAL because of it. Still, you almost WANT to believe. If people act TOO nice to me, or use certain tones, something in me now just says LIAR!! !! ! If they told me the sky was blue, I would doubt it.

Steve

I'm not particularly trusting but I do have a problem with literalism.

I'm tursting, but I have grown abit bitter and cynical over the years, and I'm only 17!

I wish I could remember a particular incident, etc... But I probably wouldn't relate it anyway. I would look back on things and think MY GOD how stupid. I hear sales pitches, and they almost lead me to believe I know everything there is to know because nearly every single new thing or thing I don't understand is a LIE!

BTW It really has little to do with trust, per se. I wish I could explain it. Still, I have had it happen to me, have seen it in various documents, and it has been related here.

BTW This hurts friendships to, because some people really DO like and respect me, but some idiots try to ACT like they do. I have to weigh/question all this.

Steve

When I was a child, I was invested by a car (my fault, btw I only broke a pinky). The owner of the car visited me at the hospital. He said me he was going to visit my family in the near future. I think I thought I was lucky to have an incident because now my family could have another friend, the guy seemed so nice and charming. It turned out the man only wanted money from my father because I damaged his car, and after this I never saw him again. Don't know if this qualify as gullibility though, I was just a child after all.

I think all people use themselves as yardsticks, so a honest person is likely to think of other persons as honest unless demonstrated otherwise.

I worry I am not nice enough lately because I specifically not trying to manipulate people. The way my flatmate interact with each other often would mean courtship for me. And I instictively reguard the standard NT tit-for-tat system as bribing.

Down deep I am niave and gullible. I think that if you take two of my definite AS tendencies; the first to take things literally, the second to project my no lies policy onto others, that this is explained.

On the other hand, half a century of life has given me a coat of cynical paint.

I used to be incredibly naive and trusting.I'm not "cynical" or bitter now,but I'm very skeptical and cautious(because I still am naive by nature).

When I was an adolescent, I was as many of you have described. I started off trusting everyone and, so, was abused and bullied by those whom I misread (and not helped any by most of the others).

I sometimes feel that I've gotten cynical over the years, and I know that I can slip into inappropriate nastiness (I really have to watch it).

But, last year, I was the mentor of a new adjunct professor. I observed him in the classroom and was very impressed. I met with him regularly and felt that he was a good teacher and a good person.

It turns out that he was fired during the semester because he was molesting students and stealing books from faculty offices, including mine.

One of the administrators questioned one of my colleagues about why I would have said such good things about him. I think that he was suspicious that I was somehow involved. My colleague's response was "He looks for the good in everybody."

Oh well.

I used to be really gullible. You know, they're removing that word from the dictionary? Oh how many times I fell for that... (I realise I was beaten to that one!)

Thankfully, I have a sense of humour and can laugh at all those times I believed stupid stuff in high school.

Not me. I tend to be on the doubting end of the spectrum. When I was younger, I was even described as paranoid. I am more trusting now, but still not a pushover.

I am skeptical and follow a logical train of thought when someone tells me something, of course if someone tells me something personal about themselves - then it's a little harder to distinguish truth from lie.

But generally I am not gullible or easily fooled, quite the opposite. Also I tend to be able to fool people relatively easy too

tyvm!

I feel sooo silly now, I fell for that to, went and looked it up before I posted earlier. Only now reading that post, (quoted in part) that I realise!