Autistic people are often mistaken for being argumentative, and I think I know why

I think autistic people are often mistaken for being argumentative and needing to be right, when in reality, it's more about needing the information to be CORRECT... because many of us get overwhelming anxiety when we're convinced that it isn't.

Proof that it's not about being right, at least not for me...

When I encounter evidence that challenges what I previously thought was true... and realize I was spreading incorrect information... I am immediately overcome with a desperate and intense need to correct it.

Like, just the thought that people have the wrong information... and that it was ME who gave it to them... makes me feel both mortified and panicky to get them the correct information as soon as humanly possible. 

If it WERE about me being right, I wouldn't acknowledge that I was ever wrong. 

I would rather people believe the incorrect information and remember me as being right, or at least, not remember me as being wrong... than admit to them that I was.

So, when I argue with someone about facts, it's not about RIGHTness... it's about CORRECTness.