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Reading people and romantic relationships

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I was wondering if autistic people cannot read people how would you know if you like someone romantically?

As I was told by a psychiatrist that when you have autism you struggle to read people, which surely means understanding the character that would make you fall for them? 

Please could someone explain? Thank you :) 

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  • Sexual attraction works on such a primitive level of the brain - inclding the olfactory system (pheromones) - that I doubt if autism has any great effect on it. Romance is a largely sociological and cultural layer added to sexual attraction, and many societies throughout history operated without it, from a who marries who angle. I would imagine that most autistic people recognise to whom they are attracted with the same facility as allistic people. The problem for autistics is the limited ability to recognise when others are attracted to them.

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  • Sexual attraction works on such a primitive level of the brain - inclding the olfactory system (pheromones) - that I doubt if autism has any great effect on it. Romance is a largely sociological and cultural layer added to sexual attraction, and many societies throughout history operated without it, from a who marries who angle. I would imagine that most autistic people recognise to whom they are attracted with the same facility as allistic people. The problem for autistics is the limited ability to recognise when others are attracted to them.

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