Published on 12, July, 2020
How trusting are you? If someone presented themselves as a good person would you immediately take their word for it? How easy to manipulate do you consider yourself? I'm sure it's not just Autistic people who are taken advantage of. But are Autistic people easier to take advantage of? Do you present yourself as honest? And do you see other people as being the same as you? Because often they are not.
With a new person I start with the assumption that they are honest and with good intent, I am honest myself, never consciously lie. Many times though people subsequently prove themselves to not be entirely honest and sometimes without good intent, at which point I detach from them they become history.
Im never taken advantage of these days but that’s I think the result of a lifetime of experience and learning.