If you have ASD is your thinking very black and white, do you have a strong moral core, and are you a stickler for rules?

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Posting here for traffic, sorry. It might be better in another topic.

Looking back at my life so far, I have always had very black and white thinking, a strong sense of right and wrong, and am a stickler for rules in general although have broken many in my time and it makes me very anxious. I am always concerned with the potential consequences of any bending or breaking of rules or societally defined morals.

I have ASD and understand it to be potentially linked but haven't looked into it in any depth. I am just wondering if anyone else on here is the same and finding lockdown particularly difficult with all the rule breaking and bending going on (if Mumsnet is anything to go by)? If you do then how do you cope with it?

A good friend has ASD and I have to say that lockdown has really brought this out in him! He's been a stickler for the rules (sometimes beyond the point of necessity) and has a belief that if he's caught breaking the rules then he would, for instance, lose his job (he wouldn't).

I have had a rough day today. A rough week actually and am writing it off as a bad job as my dad would say. I was close to meltdown today. Dd has been vile but has tonight come to apologise and said to me that she imagines it doesn't help that I'm autistic. I suspect she is too, and dd2 although to a less noticeable extent.
Thank you to everyone who has contributed to the thread so far. It's really interesting and helpful to read that I'm not weird and awkward and difficult and over-sensitive.