Published on 12, July, 2020
I have been with my partner for approximately 18 months. I did not know he was on the autistic spectrum when I met him but we moved in together and it became very evident. He is very intelligent but struggles with emotions and does not realise how rude and harsh he can be when talking to me or any of his friends. He has no self-awareness of how scary he can be. He has now developed a thing where he wakes up at 3 am most mornings and starts a conversation with me and I am absolutely shattered and finding it difficult to function properly in the day. I challenged him about it last night and now he ismt speaking to me. I don't know how much more I can cope with and I don't know how to resolve this without making him lose his temper.
I have no where else to go.…..
Yeh just read the bit about him being intelligent. Yeh autistic people are intellectually quite intelligent yet emotionally not so much. If he is being rude it could mean that he is doing it unintentionally. I mean you wouldn’t say to someone who’s blind stop staring at me! Or ‘look you bloody idiot you just walked into a wall!’ So why is it not the same for this guy who can’t read emotional situations I guess. View it like he is emotionally/socially blind I guess. That should make it easier.