banana247 wrote:
"I don't know" seems to be my go to answer for a lot of things that people ask. My mom just gets annoyed and often drops the question when I use it, but my best friend's mom won't allow me to answer questions that way and literally tells me to give another answer. Lol. I laugh when she calls me out cause I usually don't realize I'm saying again it until it's said. She is the one who first pointed out to me that I say I don't know a lot.
I'm not an ignorant or unintelligent person overall, but I THINK that I tend to respond this way when people ask about feelings, emotions, or expect me to make a quick decision without time to think it through.
Just wondering if anyone else defaults to "I don't know" and if you have an explanation or reasoning behind it?
Here's a suggstion-
You're not a puppet for other people to control.
If you don't have an answer for a question they ask, and they don't like that...
TOUGH.
Let them live with it.
If they "call you out" because you haven't given an answer that THEY approve of, TOO BAD.
Your answer is YOUR answer, and they don't get to limit what answer you can give.
Maybe another way of answering would be "I'll have to think about that"
If they push it further, just say "I said I'll get back to you. If you don't want to wait, sorry, but I'm not going to answer you before I'm ready. My answer is MY answer, not the answer YOU want me to give without thinking about it."
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AQ 31
Your Aspie score: 100 of 200 / Your neurotypical (non-autistic) score: 101 of 200
You seem to have both Aspie and neurotypical traits
What would these results mean? Been told here I must be a "half pint".