is hard to believe or not believe others

i find myself on this crossroad wich is very hard and even when everyone around me says that i cant be manipulated or autists are impossible to manipulate i feel this in the opposite

when i have little i really felt inspired and took as undeniable truth all the saying and the sage/wise elderly people

a good example i can recall this: 1 tree can make up to 100k matches but 1 match can burn up an entire forest, learn is easier to destroy than building something

that was oooh mind blowing must be totally wisedom from the ancient and amused me really hard

now that im old i have more insight and critical thinking so i know this is bs, okay a match yea is able to destroy the a forest, but where did they come from? we need gunpowder and that knowledge took thousands of years to perfect so essentially no, in not easy to destroy the forest because u need thousands of years to make and perfect gunpowder to the point of making a match

this was easy but even now i feel i keep getting manipulated by this tiktokers i just watch a girl saying that elderly people can free travel on china because the government take care of their people and is better for they overall health to not be stressed for not have money for the bus, says transportation is a human right and not a luxury

i was like oh wow this in amazing humanity is finally improving but then i think what if this aint real, i have no proof at all and i just totally fall for a cheap tiktok that maybe is full of lies

in hard to believe on people but as an autist i totally 100% everyone by default