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.
I used to be extremely trusting. I have trouble working out people's motivations and take things at face value, and I expect people to behave like I do.
This meant I have been scammed and bullied a lot so eventually (by my thirties) I learnt not to trust anybody. It's just the safest option because I don't have any techniques to tell whether someone is lying. So I just assume everyone is trying to trick me now.