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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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  • Well, we're here.  And this means that, at some point, the biological imperative to reproduce brought us here.  So I'd say that, irrespective of our ability to read people, we are genetically loaded to respond hormonally and that there's a kind of "knowing" when we feel that response is returned.  

    Mind you, I'm not entirely convinced by the psychiatrist.  My experience is of reading people too well and of this sometimes feeding into my fears and anxieties if I can feel their intent is a bit "off".  And then I'm suspicious of non autistics telling us we're somehow lacking when they so obviously misinterpret quite a lot of autistic people. 

    The double empathy problem should be something of which psychiatrists are aware.   www.youtube.com/watch

  • in reply to Jenny Butterfly

    100%. I sometimes feel it's the same for me, that I'm better able to pick up deceit or base thoughts or instincts in people than others. 

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