Are Aspies more trusting, more gullible?

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I've noticed again that many responses on a recent thread took the information posted at face value. Is this a generalized trait of the disorder? Any literature to support this?

Yeah, it is. I naturally have a more skeptical mind, so this is less of a problem for me.

I used to be very gullible... but now I analyze and compare everything to previous data before I decide whether it's true or false, and while this certainly helps, it is useless in some situations... so I am somewhat more gullible than normal.

skimming through different sites for specific quotes and such about this...

There are many many more sites and descriptions of this exact thing. While it is not in the criteria, it is still listed under explanations of the symptoms.

I don't know if it helps or not, but that's some of what I found. Grrr... didn't think to post the links >.< doh!

Nobodyzdream,
Would you mind citing the URLs that you are quoting from?

Hard to answer but my guess is it depend on how and in what context you define "trust" and "gullibility".

I would say at its core aspies are less trusting. That seems to be supported by the oxytocin dysfunctional theory of autism. Gullibility seems to be related to ones knowledge, intelligence and trust levels. So again I say many aspies are not very gullible.

But if you define gullibility as not having the social skills( whatever skills) to stand up for yourself to prevent abuse by others then I say most us are quite gullible. Like I have loan money to people I rather not, knowing I would unlikely ever be paid back. An aspie is more subject to that kind of abuse but I think they know they are being abused in most cases.

There is also the notion that aspie as they get closer to LFA tend to take words literally.
I had a joke I made up where I told these other students. "I told that Chinese student to hit the lights when he left the lab and he broke the bulb out instead of turning the switch off". (implying he did not understand English well not that he was dumb)

lol, stupid me! I need to find them again, yes-I closed windows as I did the quotes and didn't even think about it... I'm back on the hunt for them, lol.

Didn't include this one last time, just found it, lol-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome


http://www.udel.edu/bkirby/asperger/aswhatisit.html


http://www.autism.org/asperger.html


http://www.ncpamd.com/aspergers.htm

Grrr, can't pinpoint that last one again, sorry >.< will look again in the morning for sure I tend to skim big blocks of text when looking for these things, as it just confuses to read ALL of them sometimes-my brain just tires out, lol. But almost every site that is fairly detailed in the description (that I have seen beyond just these), I have found this bit of information in it.

I also know personally, for me, I take a lot of things very literally, and just kind of attempt to assume what is meant. My boyfriend can NOT use a metaphor around me if it (the metaphor) is referring to something I have experienced, because I know how it was in my experience, and will refer to it rather than seeing it from any other viewpoint, or what it is implying rather than just knowing my experience. I am prone to a lot of teasing from him due to this, lol-luckily I do know that he still loves me, and just finds it amusing, and I realize how it must look to someone else, and realize that some of the things I say are stupid AFTER I reflect on them, lol, but not at the time. I don't "get it" until after it is thoroughly explained, which means until after I ask a million questions about what exactly it meant, lol.

I was a bully target growing up, not so much because anyone was necessarily mean to me, but because I'd get so confused so easily that I was fun to pick on. I was also one of the poor saps looking up the word gullible every now and then to in fact make sure it was still in the dictionary, or to double check and make sure it was, when people would tell me it wasn't. I also fell for people telling me "you dropped your pocket" repeatedly.

Was too trusting
‘cause I stopped developing prior
to the onset of deception
that’s why I’m not a liar
but life kills the innocent
and here I am in the circle of fire
afraid to move
'cause all I see is 360 liars
I've got nothing to prove
I've just been thrown off one too many spires

i am known for being very naive and gullible (nice word). people like me for that. now in adulthood, they mostly don't misuse it. and life is nicer, not easier, but nicer...

Please refrain from using the word 'gullible',
it was removed from the dictionary.

lol, really? i am disappointed. it sounds so nice
ok, i won't use it, although i found it in my dictionary. and also here
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/gullible

I used to be very gullible now I am sceptical and analyse everything to death.

Naive is the word.

People have said I'm very trusting. Although, from experience, I've learned to be less so in certain situations.

I used to be very guillible, and believed what I now realise to be outrageous stories.
I don't think I am now, though I am probably still too trusting.