Honesty, Loyalty, and Autism – An Intense World

This is my second DLike post on the subject. It's sad how lots of "virtues" become cosmetic items in society and everyday people. One thing I've heard a lo from many people that they love the company of their pets more than their peers, family or co-workers. At times I wondered why. Lies and betrayals seems to be learned behaviour while Honesty & Loyalty are defaults. The "socially dumb" ones tend to be the ones that you tend to be able to trust the most.

At the same time, people with autism are known to believe pretty much anything anyone says to them. This is perhaps attributable to the fact that with theory of mind, one attributes others as having the same mind as oneself. I don’t lie, therefore others don’t lie. Except that’s not true. People lie all the time. And when you reach the level of self-awareness I have about who I am, especially in regards to my high functioning autism, you come to realize just how much people lie all the time.

Indeed, people want to be lied to all the time. They want to be told they look nice when they don’t. They want to be told their project is good when it isn’t. They want to be told they’re good people who don’t lie all the time just to get through the day. But you know what you won’t get from someone with autism? Any of those things. They’ll tell you you don’t look nice in that dress. They’ll actually critique your work. And they’ll write blog posts telling you that you are all a bunch of petty liars. And that, too, is a source of our social awkwardness.

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