Unusual thing I did as a kid

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When I was really young, like let's say 3 or 4, if I was in a fast food restaurant and another parent said to their kid "It's time to go", I would say "I don't want to go". I don't know if this related to theory of mind, autism but not theory of mind, or not. I'm still a little like this, if someone on WP writes something I agree with and someone else responds saying they disagree, I feel
"pressured" to agree with the person I disagree with.

Could this be related to autism?

I'm not sure if it's necessarily got anything to do with Autism, but I experience things that are quite similar, but may not be exactly the same to what you were saying about. Like say if I was with A, and A was slagging B down, I would agree and say, ''yer, that's true about B,'' then if I went upto B later on that day and B started slagging A down about the same sort of thing, I would also agree and say, ''yer, that's true about A,'' even if I liked A better than B, and so inwardly didn't agree with B. I really should stop doing this. I'm not saying I should be more honest, because that might end up hurting someone's feelings. I'm just saying that I ought to, say, agree with A on what she's saying about B, then when I catch B slagging A down, I should say, ''no, I don't think A's all that bad'', or something like that.

I'm very opinionated and independent for some reason, so I've never done this.

I'm the opposite much of the time. I catch myself trying to disagree with people. Personally, I would try hard to not let other people's opinions, sway you. If you do let their opinions sway you than it is easy to become part of the "group mentality."

My problem is more seeing all sides of an issue... I may not agree with someone but I can see where they are coming from and can explore their reasonings from their point of view. When that happens it ends up looking like I agree with them. And then everyone gets incredibly confused when I conclude with 'I don't agree with you...".

Sounds familiar. I wish you had your age posted, because I tend to think a lot of this with Aspies comes with experience. Though your age may not matter as much as how long you've known about your Autism, and how well you've learned to deal with it. All I have to go on are the number of posts you've made (1900 or so at the time of this post), and that's pretty telling in itself.

43 and self dx'd after my daughter's dx. Still learning the hard way though...

This sounds like me a little.....