Is it a common Aspie trait to forgive easily?

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I might get a little vengeful at times, but for the most part, for my whole life I've always been the forgiving kind. If somebody hurts me or someone I care about, I feel pain but I do not wish to reciprocate it back onto them. Even if someone killed a member of my family twice I'd probably forgive them each time, lol. Not because it wouldn't hurt extremely bad because it would but just because I feel revenge is not only futile but vile and not sweet at all. I think in extreme cases like that especially forgiveness is the only way a person can ever heal and feel happy again.

Ironically the only time I feel vengeful is when other people are vengeful. Like if I hear someone praise the death penalty I end up getting very angry since that personal obviously is capable of being moral and compassionate, being upset about murder, yet in the same breath condones doing the thing they hate right back to the offender. I almost feel like giving THEM the death penalty lol.

I have found almost nobody claims to be as forgiving as I do. Is this an aspie thing?

Aspies seem to be either extremely forgiving or extremely vengeful, not often in between.

I don't thing it's purely an Aspie trait. Sometimes I can be pretty forgiving. I'm one of those in-betweenies.

I'm like that too. People hurt me and I get angry and hurt, but I don't stay mad--I just avoid them. Not to say I won't take steps to stop them hurting me or anyone else again; that's why my stepfather spent time in jail. I don't let people get away with stuff and I don't let them walk all over me. But I don't see the sense in staying angry and holding a grudge. I'm capable of being perfectly pleasant while informing someone that they are acting like a horrible excuse for a human being. I get angrier if they hurt someone who's helpless, though. In those cases, when the person can't fight back, my sense of fairness kicks in and I can get pretty mad. But like I said, I don't stay mad. If anything, I'm too naive.

i forgive for nearly anything because i find it hard not to see the other person's p.o.v, but don't forget

I never forgive or forget any wrong done against me.

I forgive chronically for 'small' stuff.... but as the trespasses get larger, I reach a breaking point where I can no longer trust anything they say or do and must excise the person from my life because I find myself unable to comprehend or trust them at all.

I've forgiven almost everybody who has wronged me in the past. I won't be hostile towards them, but even though I'll forgive their actions, I'll never forget what they've done.

that there are people I hope I never encounter again in my life. They hurt me so badly. It is very hard for me to forgive and forget what they did. One day I think I am healed, the next I brood myself into misery over some past humiliation and injustice.

I can identify with so much of what has been said. It's hard for me to figure out people and their intentions in the first place. When things turn sour, I blame myself first, then remove them from my life as much as possible. It's especially confusing when people are nice in one context, and quite rude and mean in another. That confusion makes me feel stupid that I can't just let it go and move on. Unfortunately, letting things build to a blow-up is very familiar to me.

i have no inborn notion of "forgiveness" because i have also not the opposite notion of "blame".

i do not understand what is truly meant by "blame" and "forgiveness". i have a working idea that "blame" is to do with hatred toward a person or thing that is faulty to a degree that precludes a person from what they wish to see develop.

"forgiveness" i would have to surmise is the opposite of "blame", and it would be some mechanism that unravels the "blame" thing.

you may wonder how i am so clueless about the subject of "forgiveness".

it is because i have never seen "people" (or "other decision making entities") as being responsible in any way for whatever direction my life eventuates in, and as long as no one is in my way, i have no reason to even consider them.

if they are in my way, then i will make efforts to step around them.
if they completely block my progress, then i see them as simple obstacles, and therefore i never enter situations where i may be occluded by jams of ramshackle hurdles that i have little consideration for the preservation of.

but anyway i do not have much experience in "forgiveness".

if i decide someone is a poor example of humanity due to some interaction i had with them that certified my impression, then it is impossible for me to ever have respect for them again. people are who they are all their lives, and so their apologies are nothing but acknowledgements of their shortcomings in a token way, and they mean nothing to me.

i could not care in the slightest about what ever happens in anyone else's consciousness than mine.

"sorry" to who ever is disappointed.

I am the forgiving and forgetting kind.. so I am dumb in that I expect I'd start from scratch in a relationship without it being tainted but the other person thinks I am easy to be walked all over because of that... so I learnt not to forget even though I act like I've forgiven.. If I forgive I tend to let it all go without a trace.

Not in my case. I can wait for the opportunity for taking a revenge for years

I am the opposite, I don't forgive people very easily. Well, I do with my friends, but with people who I have a bad experience from the start.

I was like this a lot as a child and I still find myself that way but I need to step in and not give people more chances.

If they explain their motives and honestly meant no harm then I can forgive most people if they apologise. The longer the gap between what happened and when they said sorry, the more likely I am to remember though..

I'm the same way.