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Is my asperger's syndrome holding me back in life?

mark123

This past week ive been very depressed with where I am in life.
Im 28 and I don't have any friends and i've never been in a relationship.

I went on my first date last week and it wasn't too bad but I just found it very hard to talk to the guy. I think it triggered something.
I don't think we're going to meet again, I don't think im going to have much luck with anyone.

I feel like I need friends/someone to talk to more than anything. Im just, very alone. I never leave the house unless its with my family. I feel like i've never lived. 

Feeling this way, I just end up crying about 3 times a day or whenever I think about my life. I don't know what to do.

I just feel like I would have a life im happy with if it wasn't for my AS. 
 

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  • Hello Mark

    MattBucks is right... conversation and connection works best for us through an interest. We are wired for that; the exchange of information and relating of what we have discovered, attempted and achieved, on a subject we are really interested in.

    Starting a conversation and sustaining it is tricky when you cannot read faces in any depth or pick-up those subtle NT signals that they pass between each other.. and which we often fail to understand. But if you are with others who have the same interest, you already have solved the initial problem - what to talk about.

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  • Hello Mark

    MattBucks is right... conversation and connection works best for us through an interest. We are wired for that; the exchange of information and relating of what we have discovered, attempted and achieved, on a subject we are really interested in.

    Starting a conversation and sustaining it is tricky when you cannot read faces in any depth or pick-up those subtle NT signals that they pass between each other.. and which we often fail to understand. But if you are with others who have the same interest, you already have solved the initial problem - what to talk about.

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