Loyalists?

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A common autistic trait is to be loyal to people. This is a thread for like-minded people to talk about their loyalties and why they have them and what makes them the way they are.

I'm that way with my mum. We are very close. Not so much me and my dad but my mum is the only person to really get to grips with me. She goes away in a few hours for a trip to Cyprus. When she gets back I'm going to have a wee party in the car on her return.

I'll shuffle off and leave the floor to the rest of you.

No loyalties here. I would be very loyal to my future girlfriend though. When it comes to other people: I hate disappointing people (like cancelling apointments and such) but that is not really loyalty I guess.

My son was overly loyal to his girlfriend, and still is to this day (even though she's now married to someone else). He won't allow any of his family to bad mouth her in any way, even when she has traits that deserve badmouthing.

Kris

I'm very loyal to my husband. I made a commitment, and that's something I don't take lightly.

I've been loyal to others throughout my life who didn't deserve it (some family, friends, people who walked all over me). I'm not so much that way anymore. I think before I believed that things always worked they way they're supposed to. I believed that if I were nice to others, they would be nice in return. If I was good to them, they would be good to me. In fact, I was just repeatedly taken advantage of.

I am very loyal to my friends. I spend time with them, every chance that I get. I also help the driver of the group with gas money.

I'm also loyal to my mum. The two of us are like two peas in a pod, since I've sent her an e-mail about my feelings, this past July.

I'm loyal to my dog, Chico. I go to visit him every weekend that I can.

I'm also very loyal to myself. I am my own best friend.

I'm very loyal to Sid, from that movie that I love, so much. I even have two Sid figurines that I take turns carrying in my purse.

I'm more loyal to my friends here than I've been to anyone else in my life. Even my parents. I'm afraid I've used them.

I'm pretty darned loyal. It knows bounds though, but that's only if I'm really wronged.
But I am a strongly loyal guy.

to the people liked,am very loyal and would protect them if someone was attacking them,but main loyality is to animals,even to ones don't know such as wild life,wouldn't let anyone hurt them if saw it happening,and would protect the injured ones,and bury the dead ones.

Im very loyal 2 my parents, my sister, my friends n other people who i worked with only in the voluntary sector gettin involved in sports at grassroots level especially for people with learnin disabilities.

Yeah, that's so true. I believe I'm very loyal, and actually when people are not loyal to me, it really shocks and hurts me, more than just about anything else, I think.

But it's hard if you're loyal to someone and the person you are loyal to is not, in return, loyal to you. It's hard to stop being loyal to them if a friendship breaks up over this, etc. You know what I mean?

Like Siuan said, it's easy to get taken advantage of if you're loyal...

Interesting notion; I'm not sure how related to AS it is, but, yes, I have a rather fierce sense of loyalty; I place it among my set of virtues. Like respect and trust, loyalty must be painstakingly earned with me; and also like respect and trust, it can be lost if I am mal-used. But if my loyalty is there for something or someone, it is generally unwavering. Like others here have mentioned, if someone I am loyal to "betrays" me, it wounds me very deeply.

For example, I'd rather face the penalties for refusing to testify than testify against a friend or loved one. For another example, I have great loyalty to my employer because they consistently treat me very well; I have access to a huge amount of intellectual property and other confidential information that I guard well not because of some NDA I signed long ago, but out of earned loyalty.

Loyalty is one of those points of honour that I hold dear, and it is enforced by my conscience; because of that it is more valuable than money (and that, I think, may be an aspie thing); if I took a billion dollars to betray a friend, I would be forever haunted by that betrayal, so it wouldn't be worth it to me.

Good fortune,

- Icarus can be bribed, but not on matters of loyalty...

extremly loyale to some folks but generaly i have a hard time thrusting folks

I'm loyal to my girlfriend.

I'd like to be loyal to my country but the United States is now a shadow of its former self and fast heading towards a fascist state.

Ed Almos