Gullible?

Post Reply New Topic

Do you ever have problems with being gullible or naive?

Sometimes I can attest this to not understanding sarcasm right away, but other times I think I'm just easily tricked and gullible.

Is anyone else like this?

I used to be gullible. I've learned a lot, though, in my 56 years, some of it painfully.

I've never been particularly gullible. I'm a born skeptic where people are concerned.

I tend to be gullible, though I have improved over the years. I by default don't trust people after being manipulated many times. Some people are natural manipulators and they themselves don't always seem to realize they are manipulating. I seem to be naturally gullible. So I have to be extra-careful not to be tricked by them.

Sometimes I'll miss jokes because I expect people to be as honest as I am, which I'm sure is interpreted as me being gullible. In actuality I'm skeptical of a lot of things when humor isn't involved.

I've looked for "gullible" written on the ceiling before. more than once...(saying it's up there is a practical joke people do)

I'm pretty sharp when it come to things like phishing scams. In general, I don't give people the opportunity to hoodwink me. I'm too suspicious, too cynical, too skeptical, too aloof, too hard to pin down. My brother has manipulated me into doing things for him from time to time, but hey, what's family for?

Yes, always when I was younger, that's what made me more cautious towards others.

Now I realize it is just people doing wrong, people with no integrity or values taking advantage of someone else and I don't want to be associated with that. There are also a lot of honest hard working fair people so it's about finding a balance between being cautious but not too cautious.

I was very gullible as a kid and still am about things but if it's obvious BS, I don't buy it.

Someone at work told me her kid was taken because they were in the streets homeless and then she told me they were staying at a friends and they were taken for it. I told her That wasn't living in the streets because she had shelter. But my husband told me it was all bull she was telling me and my mother told me he is right, it is all bull and her friend was probably doing drugs or something. Just shows how gullible I am. I easily believe people about their side of the stories. I don't know if she was lying or was just dense.

But I don't fall for scams because I am too afraid of something being a scam.

However, I do not believe someone if they have done false accusations and made false claims because I don't know anymore what they are saying is even true. If someone is also a pathological liar, I also don't believe anything they say anymore.

When I hear contradictions, I don't even know what to believe.

I'm pretty much gullible, because I take it literally. Especially if the person is new to me. I gobble everything up.

I take things to literally, but it usually just confuses me.

For example in another thread, Simple advice for preschool teachers (http://www.wrongplanet.net/postt227827.html, the OP said:



I sat here wondering if her kid reacted oddly when someone dropped a penny on the floor. I remained confused until I looked it up and found that to be a phrase meaning "someone belatedly understands something that everyone else has long since understood."

Yes, I have been very gullible in the past, and suffered for it.

As a defense, I have also been very anti-social in the past to protect myself from being tricked or cheated.

This is a sense of mistrust and suspicion against others, even if I have no real proof that they are dishonest.

Me too. I'm not that gullible. I don't think I could be conned--especially where money is concerned. Mostly because I don't have any . But apparrently I am naive. I can't believe the cruel and thoughtless and selfish things that people do to others all the time. I am in my mid-40s and wonder if I've even scratched the surface of the "real world".

What does "gullible" mean? I tried looking it up in the dictionary but it's not there.

Easily fooled, hoodwinked, decieved.

It used to be that you could trick people by telling them to call 1-800-ESQUIRE for a daily joke. They'd get to the Q and realize they had been fooled when they couldn't find it.

Since there is a Q on the dial these days, that trick would no longer work.