Are Aspies opininated?

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wow!
I am speechless. I don't know what to say.
You have very strong opinions as do most of us here.........

But maybe your childhood home is not the best place to express them.

Yes!
When I was working at an autoparts store to pay for college books, there was some 60 year old religious bible nut that said the world doesn't need psychiatrists.
Psychiatry doesn't always help everyone, and some people (particularly Scientologists) despise psychiatry, but I have been personally helped by a psychiatrist with excellent results, and I got irritated when that old fart shared his flawed opinion.
I ended up telling him that someone who could only find a career at an autoparts store as their life achievement should not be allowed to have opinions regarding medical issues, he got pissed off! =D

Same here, at least when I was a teenager, she was impressed that I could be so mature when it comes to politics (since I can be very immature sometimes).

So... People think I am opiniated, that is true on certain topics but most of the time they just didn't understand what I was saying. I think everyone is opiniated, even those who think they are not. Some just hide it beter than others.

I used to be very opinionated but over the years I've mellowed. Particularly after the DX when I started to see how a lot of the crap I'd experienced could have been largely down to misunderstanding.

I also got a lot of help from alternativist cultures - they seemed to have a very non-judgemental ethos, and I liked that because of course it meant that they wouldn't judge me too glibly Typical example was when we were in a taxi and the driver was being quite rude to us......for two pins I'd have bawled him out and spent the rest of my life telling people about the horrible taxi driver and what a scumbag he was. But one guy said "it's OK, he's probably just having a bad day - let's give him a tip and maybe that'll convince him that the world isn't so bad." So we did that, and the driver did seem to mellow a little. I felt I'd kind of grown up that day.

I guess my poiint is that strong opinions tend to lead to destructive conflicts.

I used to be very opinionated about women's revealing clothes, and beleived in a very concrete way that such women were worthless bimbos. But I kept thinking, and eventually realised that for a lot of them, it hadn't been a deliberate choice to fly in the face of what I would call decency, it was just that they'd been brought up with different values, and that all I could do was to express my own preference, and to own that, instead of trying to insist it was the only way of seeing it.

I think that once you start to own your opinions and preferences, instead of projecting them out onto the whole world as The Truth, then you've taken a very important step towards enlightenment. It helps to avoid listening to politicians - they set a dreadful example because they're always trying to pretend they've got the answers, they call this bigotry "resolute statesmanship" and they seem to do very well out of it. It might make a lucrative career but socially it's a disaster. We do not need resolute statesmen, we need thoughtful people who know that their opinion is not everything - but that's just my opinion.

Once you start defending an idea, you get into a certain mentality and you do get very biased towards it. This is true of all people, Aspie or NT.

I'm not opinionated! No no sir.

OK, I am. Very. Opinionated. Especially with matters to do with special interests (one of those sp.interests being religion, so yeaaaaah)

I have my opinions, but I don't mind having them challenged. I don't mind if other people hold different opinions

I am very opinionated, and I find myself being judgemental sometimes.

To be opinionated is wrong....period.

o·pin·ion·at·ed: Holding stubbornly and often unreasonably to one's own opinions.

To be able to explain a misunderstood concept, to defend a correct concept...or to defeat an incorrect concept...using a rational argument is right.

An opinion is subjective....now you may be able to prod the person to explain their reason as to why they may FEEL a certain way...their reason may be invalid...and so their right to feel that way invalid....

Say a person says that in their opinion...beef tastes horrible. Now...if a person has a sensitivity to a flavor in beef...that it really is disagreeable to them...perhaps they may taste copper in the blood...etc...that to them is real..and so valid. If they are basing it upon one instance of eating a spoiled piece...then no...they are incorrectly basing their opinion on a false premise...that all beef is flavored like the spoiled piece.

Too often...an irrational argument is masked as an opinion...or an attempt to censure a rational argument by calling it an opinion is utilized by people who wish to wrest control of a group or to try to sabotage a person's rightful rise in the group or situation.

yes.

^ this is the most opinionated statement yet on this thread. but maybe it was a joke.

I think that this happens an awful lot. There is tendency, especially in political arguments, to spout facts that are demonstrably wrong and then defend them by saying, "It's my opinion."

I'm very opinionated.

HFA and opinionated, yes. In a rigid thinking manner.

Everyone is opinionated..I never really got the concept of not being opinionated.

I'm opinionated.

Oppositional and opinionated.

Well to be one you have to be both.