Have you ever been tricked into doing something?

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Through out reading information on Asperger's one thing I come across is we are naive and can be "set up", tricked,taken advantage of. Do you have any stories of this? Here are some of mine.

1) (Hey go tell the teacher Bench,Bench,Bench 3 times real fast this was 3rd grade BTW) I did. She took me by the wrist and walked me to the Principals office and I didn't know what I had done wrong. I asked mom and she told me. I still find the term b***h silly. It's used freely in Harry Potter to describe a female dog just as Ass can be used for Donkey.

2) I went to a school meeting and found out my psychology teacher had issues with my behavior. I was shocked/stunned even. I went home to rant. A "friend" suggested going postal I said sure (in a sarcastic tone) and me/him laughed it off it was all a big joke. I then found out he told the school/teacher and I was suspsended for a year. FOR A JOKE!! !! Sadly I find out I was let off lucky and could of earned jail time. There are people now who jokingly threaten to blow up airports if there flight is delayed again or the dislike of President Obama which have got threats tossed around. Again luckily no fine or jail time was involved and I only got off with a suspension for a year.

3) Hey Brandy sing "Hound Dog" (BTW it's an Elvis Presley song) I said sure and would sing. They'd laugh I assumed they were laughing at it being funny but they were laughing AT ME.

What are YOUR stories?

I have been tricked so many times I don't even remember lot of them. One of them was about a singer and it's pretty adult and I actually looked up the name and my teacher saw me and told me it was inappropriate. Well that singer turned out to be made up and the name was actually a sexual term.

When I was eight, my two best friends were over and they told me to hide in my closet so I did after they kept egging me into doing it. Then when I came out, they were gone and not in my house anymore. They were forced to come back and apologize.

When I was a kid, sometimes kids would give me something like one of their pieces of food and when I eat it, it turn out they did something to it like had it in their mouths or whatever and then they'd tell me after I'd eat it. Then they go and tell other kids about it. Now I refuse food from strangers and anyone I don't know well. I have to trust them.

When I was eight, I was told to walk in this section of the grass on our playground by these girls from my class. I noticed they stopped when we got to the lawn and they told me "Walk on it" so I did and they all screamed and ran and I didn't know what happened. They told me "It's Joshua grass and now you have his germs."

The food thing you mention reminded me. There was a teacher assistant who was nice and sweet and would let us share food but after she left and a new once came in (She had a BIG Mole on her nose LOL!) She did NOT let us sure food and would get mad.

Hey Matt, show us how you brush your teeth! (If you don't get it, do it in the mirror, and figure it out)
Plenty more examples like that. Hey Matt, show us your donut face! Hey Matt, go ask the teacher what a carpet muncher is!

I think we can be very naive in general but we also believe those we deal with will be honest about their intentions, as we would be. Something I read lately mentioned not understanding 'social agenda's' as an issue for AS people and it really struck home for me that was one of my main issues. I just got caught up in another situation and I felt really bad as the other person wanted me to bend the rules to benefit her, the penny dropped and it was only then that I realized I had been setup from the start!

I keep trying to make myself aware of this but it doesn't seem to help much when I get caught off guard and don't have enough time to think it through. Not sure what the answer is...

Yes. Several times.

Glad I'm not the only one. Of course not the butt of jokes anymore, but still find myself being naive and too trusting of people. I am trying to learn from my years of earlier mistakes and think "what's in this for me?" but again, takes time to sort out. I expect other people to be as honest and caring as I am and that's just a fantasy, not the real world.

Some kids in elementary school convinced me to walk around the schoolyard yelling "I am not a virgin!"

Also, one of my uncles does this to me all the time... I mean he will say something very seriously and I believe him even though what he said was illogical, but then he will laugh indicating it was a joke.

I find the thing about Aspies always trusting people weird, because I usually never trust anybody.

I had a plastic penis put in my mouth, when a couple of boys told me to close my eyes, in my regular grade 5 class. I was embarassed for the rest of the day.

Yes.

I used to get tricked all the time, but now that I am older and wiser, I get tricked much less often. Although it still happens once in a while.

As a young kid I was very trickable. I called one of my teachers the N word and pinched another. All because I was told to do it by other kids my age with smiling, encouraging faces. Turns out they werent being friendly. Who knew.

As a kid, my uncle told me Quint's story from Jaws one christmas as if it were his own story. I believed him even though I had seen Jaws recently. I figured out that he hadnt actually been on the Indianapolis in my mid-20s. Just came to me one day.

I'm naturally very trusting in people and don't often stop to think about people's motives. The worst is when I get duped into conversation with someone and then they start asking for money or favors. I never see it coming, though I've gotten better at seeing for the warning signs.

It's a sad thing when you have to learn to be suspicious of people.

This has happened to me often. It's only after I realise what has happened and then I can see that it was deliberate by the person. It has been a large contributor in my general mistrust of people and I do find I am often suspicious of things people say when maybe I don't need to be. I have learnt that the strong/shaking/anxious feeling I get deep inside sometimes is rarely far wrong but sometimes I am still able to be persuaded that it's wrong and every things ok so afterwards I feel even stupider for not believing myself. I do want to believe that people are generally good but experience has taught me otherwise and yet I still hope it's true and so this happens over and over even with the same person

I was talked into throwing a chair out a window when the teacher left the room when I was in kindergarden. They told me they needed the chair to hold the door open outside. When the teacher came back they all ran up to her and told her I threw it out the window and they tried to stop me.

In high school I was asked by two girls to ask another girl how her father was doing. It turned out the girl's father died of cancer 2 weeks before I asked and those two girls did not like her, I guess they wanted to see her cry. The two girls who asked me to say that were caught and suspended for 2 weeks but that girl always avoided me after that and we were friendly towards one another before that.

When I was a senior in high school someone hid my clothes when I was in gym but I found them neatly folded ontop of some lockers. I was told by the guy who did it that he and his friends saw this other kid do it and then the rest of the gym class joined in blamming him so I walked up to him and spit in his face while the gym class hooted and hollored. The kid did nothing I was twice his size and was extremely violent. Then latter on in another class one of the guys from gym class told me who really did it. He said they thought I would just yell at him. I tried starting fights with the kid who lied to me to the point they had to move the liar to another gym class.

I was asked by another kid to remove screws from this small section of lockers I think there was like three lockers. He said he was going to turn the lockers the other way as a joke. He took the locker section and threw it into a pond behind the school. People said they saw me remove the screws from the lockers. I snitched on the locker dumper and was let go without punishment but the principal told me to take my head out of my @ss.