How to treat an autistic friend

i dunno, i feel perhaps its best to just be your regular self. otherwise if you become different perhaps she wouldnt like the new fake you? lol if she still likes you now then she likes you for who you are anyway. any fallouts she has with you she perhaps would kick herself for, i guess she apologizes to you alot for any arguments? that would be a sign any argument she regrets and blames herself for if so.

I suppose I'm worried that when she's difficult/hurtful and especially when she misreads something I've said, I will from now on have to let it go because she's autistic, or thinks she is. No she doesn't apologise! – because she doesn't understand the dynamics of our arguments.

For instance, when she talks about herself on the phone for 45 minutes and I finally have to say I must go, she gets really really hurt and doesn't understand that I'm not rejecting her, I've just got stuff to do! Is that autism and I should just carry on listening? Because that's what I do now, and I get really resentful.

ah i dunno, i heard it manifests differently in women. but in men generally youd probably not get much conversation out of a dude with autism lol infact i dont like speaking over phones myself. better text based, verbally not very good. but my mum speaks and never stops speaking... i always suspected my dad perhaps had the autism and i got it from him, but then again if women none stop speak perhaps my mum could be autistic if thats how it is in women. she totally ends up going on about her whole life story with the way she speaks and links it to one thing and another, if im out walking with her and she sees someone and begins talking i know im gonna have to be standing around waiting for like 1 or 2 hours for her to stop talking or for the other person to take it in their own hands and leave,

Autism in women does present differently, as a general rule, which is why so many females are diagnosed later in life, compared to males. That doesn't mean they experience it differently, just present differently. This is thought to be because females learn to mask earlier in order to 'fit in', and so don't outwardly exhibit the common 'male' traits. There is a lot of information available that explains it better than I can. 

Autism in women does present differently, as a general rule, which is why so many females are diagnosed later in life, compared to males. That doesn't mean they experience it differently, just present differently. This is thought to be because females learn to mask earlier in order to 'fit in', and so don't outwardly exhibit the common 'male' traits. There is a lot of information available that explains it better than I can.