Am I the only one who feels like Aspies are close-minded?

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I'm not trying to be insulting in fact other people tell me I'm close minded too and I think it's a trait of having Aspergers.

SO MANY people on this forum have that same trait. It's impossible to win an argument with Aspies because they only see the world from their point of view and they expect everybody else to see the world their way too. They don't compromise their opinions. In fact they can get pretty mad with anybody who disagrees with them or proves them wrong even over such minor things. I know I do it, my brother who also has Aspergers does it, and so do many members here. It's also very hard to influence how they feel about something because it takes them a very long time to even consider somebody else's opinion.

That must be one of the reasons Aspies have such a hard time making friends and having relationships. They talk at people rather than with people. It's always a one-sided conversation with us.

Closed-minded, or just a higher threshold of belief?

Some people ... you could sing the first two lines of "Pennies from Heaven" and they'd be outdoors with a bucket.

Other people ... tell them that the sky appears blue because of Rayleigh Scattering, and they'll demand to see the experimental data.

I've seen both, with Aspies AND Neurotypicals.

I think I'm pretty open minded.
I like listening to people and talking with them and hearing differing opinions, even if I don't necessarily agree with them.
I must not have autism.

Not just an aspie thing, I know several annoyingly hard headed NTs

Um, excuse me but I believe the majority of neurotypicals are typically closed-minded. It's even been pointed out on WP (I think there was a thread here somewhere called "why are NTs so closed-minded?" or something like that).

I mean, NTs expect everyone to be like them. If you're a bit different they can't handle it. They expect you to think like they do, and they judge you if you don't. Some even bully you because of it.

I'm not saying Aspies aren't closed-minded. We're probably just as bad as NTs. I know I don't like being all Us vs Them, because, at the end of the day, we're all humans, whether you're autistic, NT or ND. But with all the misunderstanding and the bullying and the rejection and the judgments us spectrumers get treated with by NTs in our lives, it's so ironic for an Aspie to come to WP and tell us that we're the closed-minded group.

Besides aren't Aspies the ones who don't adjust well to any kind of change? That's a form of close-minded behavior.

Conclusion: Aspies are close-minded about being close-minded.

You can never quite predict how these threads are gonna swing, can you?

Aspies are NOT closed minded!

And....

NOTHING THAT YOU SAY will convince me that they are!