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Unwanted longing for companionship

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First, no negative, cynical or put-down comments, please.

For the most part, I am accustomed to my own company and just keeping myself busy to pass the time, but sometimes there is a sort of longing for a significant other, though I have accepted I wouldn't have the right stuff to make it happen (money, own vehicle, job, social connections, etc.) and I ignore and quash those feelings by keeping busy.

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  • I think this is a very common problem for autistic people. One of (now adult) sons would really like a partner but he just doesn’t see how it will happen because he finds talking to people other than close family almost impossible. It gets him down because he feels it will never happen for him, and I worry about it too because when we ‘re no longer here in the future I worry he’ll be lonely. So we are now realising we really have to change things in a way to help him to have the confidence to connect to other people. He does AND doesn’t want to connect to people, it’s so difficult to work this one out. I’ve always felt that autistic people often get on best with other autistic people - and I think this is possibly the answer. I wish there were more social groups to help autistic people to meet each other. 

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  • I think this is a very common problem for autistic people. One of (now adult) sons would really like a partner but he just doesn’t see how it will happen because he finds talking to people other than close family almost impossible. It gets him down because he feels it will never happen for him, and I worry about it too because when we ‘re no longer here in the future I worry he’ll be lonely. So we are now realising we really have to change things in a way to help him to have the confidence to connect to other people. He does AND doesn’t want to connect to people, it’s so difficult to work this one out. I’ve always felt that autistic people often get on best with other autistic people - and I think this is possibly the answer. I wish there were more social groups to help autistic people to meet each other. 

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