There are at least a few possibilities here I think: 1) They weren’t actually wrong, but you didn’t understand their context 2) They experienced discomfort wi

There are at least a few possibilities here I think: 1) They weren’t actually wrong, but you didn’t understand their context 2) They experienced discomfort with an incursion into their worldview, and you didn’t compellingly convince them they were wrong, so why bother to switch 3) Along with autism seems to come a predisposition to narcissism as individual understanding frequently outstrips peers, and an under engagement with social skills mean they don’t get as much from those interactions In my experience the denial is usually temporary unless they are malignantly narcissistic.