Are aspies self-righteous?

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I find I'm the opposite; I blame myself on things instead of the other people.

After reading the responses here, I guess my old "friend" was self righteous because he would get upset if I didn't talk enough or didn't know what to say or talk about. Then he would throw himself a "I am so boring" party and then sign off. Then other times he would call me arrogant for not talking enough or not saying anything. I am glad we don't talk anymore.

I remember hearing in the news online about a woman hitting a cyclist while texting and she got mad at the cyclist for the damage on her car and was not even concerned about how hurt she is and if she will be okay or not. Self righteous? She blamed the cyclist than herself and she was the one texting and she denied she was doing that.

I also get upset with no reply and I always think I did something wrong. I try and wait a few days and also look at when they were last on the forum. I was talking to someone on another website and she had added me to her friends and she was asking me questions about me and I decided to ask her some back after reading her profile because I got curious and I figured it would be okay to ask her because she was asking me about me. After that reply, I never heard back from her and I saw she was on the website ever since so I waited and then eight days had passed since my last reply and I saw she still had me on her friends so I decided to remove her as a friend. I just figured she was mad at me and I did something wrong and she never bothered taking me off her friends so I did it for her and felt better. It was driving me crazy and making me feel like I was going to have a ,meltdown and I have dealt with enough of that from other people. Besides would I really want t be friends with someone who doesn't even want to bother answering my questions if she is asking me some herself? How fair is that?

I've never really thought of myself as being self-righteous....I've been accused of blaming people for stuff that was supposedly my fault when it legitimately has to do with other people. For instance once a couple kids where bullying me in the lunch line and taunting me to try to push them over so I pushed them just the right way the whole line fell and the teacher wouldn't listen when I told my side also I was the smallest person there and I'm a girl they where boys and the one doing that was much bigger than me...but yeah it would have never happened if it wasnt for that....so yeah I did do the pushing but the kids bullying me played a role in it as well.

Sometimes I also get upset and lose sight of the effect on other people, like might say the wrong things or this or that or just not get why no one really gets why I am upset and just thinks I am being dramatic. Or I have a hard time getting over if I lose something(I lose stuff a lot) so its hard not to complain about it to the point it annoys people understandably because there is nothing they can do aside help me look or keep an eye out for it which they usually do then I might still be going on about it but I am really trying not to do that and deal with losing stuff in a less annoying way.

I do actually care about other people and am intrested in them, though it can be hard to express...but its really a lack of care or intrest, just communication difficulties.

This is what I am talking about. I am like that too. Someone does something I often do to others and I am like: fine if she/he wants to behave that way so be it, I don't care about her/him either. I recall I sent my cousin an email and she did not reply, and I was like: okayyy, so long... lol

I have noticed that there are sometimes things I don't like about other aspies only to realize I am like that too. The self-righteousness is the double standard, and the spite is the tit-for-tat attitude when the other person likely never meant any offence.

I apologize if this is inappropriate but I think you are adorable. I had to tell you

I have a similar story regarding taking the blame while not doing anything wrong. When I was 3 or 4 I was at kindergarten and one of the kids pushed another kid and he got a nosebleed. When the teacher came over he blamed me, so she separated me from the other kids and put me in an area by myself. When i went home I told my father what happened and then told him I would bend the kid that blamed me in half the next time I saw him. He said: no, you can't do that, you should not be violent. I replied: we'll see about that! For some reason my parents never took me back there lol It was the first injustice I experienced

As a conditioned response to a lifetime of social problems as well as dealing with a number of self righteous NTs, I suppose I can be sometimes.

In my case, yes.....you filthy heathens.

I suspect we are less able to pick up and control this behaviour compared to NTs. I really think that NTs who see themselves as having average social skills don't need to work on themselves much more than that, so if they have jerkish behaviour then they see little need to stop being a jerk. I on the other hand continuously work hard to develop new social skills. I have developed a lot of new skills and awareness but I think because of my autism I will never stop working on myself even when I get to an average level.

I remember I used to blame people for not following my routine. I no longer do that. There might be an occasion where I do that though.

Calling us self-righteous and spiteful when we might not even be aware we are and if we are we find it difficult to control, is pretty hurtful. I get called selfish a lot when I'm really not meaning to be, and that hurts.

Yes. And a little black&white.

I have been told that I am acting or being self-righteous but honestly, I really have no idea what that means. LOL