shawnh wrote:
It's because so many people have taken advantage of us, once we have figured that out... why would I want to risk being taken advantage of again? Shoot or be shot...
Part of improving yourself IS figuring out how not to be taken advantage of.
Believe it or not, sometimes...not all the time, but probably fairly frequently among those with AS or other communication difficulties, when someone is taken advantage of, much of the blame for it falls on them, because they failed to define their boundaries to the other individual, and that individual thought the other person didn't have a problem with whatever it was they were doing.
People with AS are guilty of this as well, as the boundaries of others aren't always clear to us.
So we should try harder to figure out the boundaries of others and define out own boundaries to them.