Dating...

So, here’s my deal. I’ll try and be as clear and concise as possible, I am better in short bursts of words and never was any good at English, and much better at expressing myself visually.

Anyway… I had another meltdown on FB the other week.

Decided it would be great to maybe meet women as I’d moved to a new area and needed a distraction from all the work I’m having done to my flat.

So boy meet girl on Tinder, go on a date, boy thinks it’s gone ok, girl says the same in person. Boy contacts girl day after, girl doesn’t engage back in conversation, boy feels rejected (which tbh, I have been).

In my quest for answers, the more I think back to that date, and also many other dates I’ve had, I just can not read situations at all. that then leads to frustration and anger at letting myself be put in a vulnerable position, doing something which I know I just can’t do.

On the outside, people think I’ve got it all. and have nothing to be ‘depressed’ about. home, career, interests and all that other materialistic stuff. But they don’t understand how frustrating it is, not to be able to read other peoples body language, and basically be in a position to have a potential relationship (been single 3 yrs since the last one of 5yrs, and tbh, life is getting a quite lonely).

I compare it with job hunting. I’m quite crap at that too. too open, too honest, ramble on about stuff which i shouldn’t be rambling on about, and on paper I’m as qualified as anyone with the same level of portfolio.

Probably should take my own advice on being up front with any potential date that I am on the spectrum, then maybe then, they might not view me as rude/weird or whatever it is that I’ve said thats probably made them run a mile…

Just wanted to put it out there and see if anyone else has had similar feelings (or lack of).

thx

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  • Chewie

    I expect you'll get quite a breadth of replies.

    Some people have opted to live alone and remain single, some have manage to sustain relationships.

    personally i am rubbish at all relationships, friendships, companionships, and family connectors! But i do make people aware that I am crap! - "expect nothing and you won't be disappointed" 

    Currently on marriage no.2 after a number of years on my own...and do realise in some ways that is a cruelty on my part to have to put a NT type through co-existence with me.  One of the reasons that I am on the forum is to have safe contact with people and because my OH does not "get" ASD.

    Whatever you do...make sure you know yourself and love your ASD. Don't stop being YOU in order to FIT IN....try and think of ways that best describe who you are, how you tick, what you need and what you want.  Don't be tempted to trick people into thinking you are something that you are not or try to be something that you are not as that way tears lie!

    Don't think of ASD as a negative (urrrm....does that mean you disregard my comments above!! - haha)....or as you being second best....

    chin up Chewie...I am sure that you will one day find your Han Solo....

    Try not to rush, breathe, be kind to yourself and to others!!

    Good luck

  • God I learnt the lesson of being someone who I wasn’t and it ended sort of badly.

    Looking back, even then I felt emotionally detatched. Even go engaged and my first thoughts were wedding and people, wtf are you doing...

    i want it all. The company, closeness, yet want to keep it all at arms length at the same time.

  • Yes....and there lies the rub.....the push me pull you of holding close and pulling away.....like a one person tug of war.

    maybe the holding close is striving for NT “normality”...or just innate human-nessabd need to connect and be understood, the pulling away....self preservation ...

    Priddle me that Wookiee! 

  • The resonates well with me.

    At the start of a relationship I will strive to for "normality" but over time it proves too hard to retain the mask and I then start showing those traits I have always be ashamed? scared? deinied?

  • i'm a very logical problem solving person. yet human signals and all that, confuse the hell out of me.
    Small talk... cant deal with it at all. always end up going off on a deep and meaningful tangent. no wonder a lot of women get scared off!

    Those that I have got together with over a period of time, have chased me... so I know they're into me. yet even in a relationship, I am admittedly stone cold from an emotional angle.

    When my sister told me my dad had died, i felt nothing. although i did get choked up the last time I saw him alive and in a old peoples home.

    I felt more emotional grief when I had to put one of my cats to sleep.

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  • i'm a very logical problem solving person. yet human signals and all that, confuse the hell out of me.
    Small talk... cant deal with it at all. always end up going off on a deep and meaningful tangent. no wonder a lot of women get scared off!

    Those that I have got together with over a period of time, have chased me... so I know they're into me. yet even in a relationship, I am admittedly stone cold from an emotional angle.

    When my sister told me my dad had died, i felt nothing. although i did get choked up the last time I saw him alive and in a old peoples home.

    I felt more emotional grief when I had to put one of my cats to sleep.

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