Do women not like aspie guys?

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I am a female Aspie myself, but I'd say I wouldn't really want to marry an Aspie man. It's nothing personal, and I wouldn't mind being friends with one, but I don't think I would fall in love with one because I think we would clash. It might be because I come across as NT to my colleagues, and if I said I had AS they wouldn't believe me.

I think I'll do better marrying a NT man, even though they can be misunderstanding. But NTs can be misunderstanding to eachother - (my parents are!)

I already have NT men fancying me and want to go out with me. It's a start.

Anyway - just because I've got AS, doesn't mean every NT man in the world will run away from me. It all depends on how they feel. My Aspie friend is getting married to a NT man next year, and they've been living together for a year, and he really loves her. When she first went out with him she was honest with him and said, ''please excuse me if I talk about my special interests - I will try and limit it.'' And he said, ''I'm not going to let that come between us.'' And she did limit herself from talking about her special interests. Anyway - he has his special interests too, which is football.

It's naive to think that NTs won't look twice at an Aspie woman. You'll be surprised at who gets married to who these days.

I wouldn't say women don't like Aspie guys, but it probably means that they were not meant to be with each other so they shouldn't pursue a relationship. Our problems with communicating, reading body/facial expressions, and intense focus on a special interest are a couple of reasons that some of us Aspies get rejected by certain women. Others however are lucky to fix some of those problems enough for a women to start a relationship, though even in long term relationships, women married to an Aspie guys would see some problems within them and they start to feel uneasy about it. Thats typical in any relationship whether with an NT or Aspie.

They believe in the slime that Autism Speaks dishes out, and they want perfect children, so they'd rather date guys who are NT. I find it very shallow of them.

@ ApsieGuy
Asperger has a very strong genetic component. So if you are an Aspie man it is very likely you will hand down this to your children especially if they are boys. Having said that, I fell in love with an Aspie man and I would have married him. Unfortunately he never told me he has Asperger and since I never met anyone else with Asperger before, I did not know how to interpret his behavior (putting his routine before me, rarely responding to emails or phone calls, refusing to go to parties with me and so on). I ended up believing he was just not interested in me as I was in him. I think that the major issue is that Aspies have a really hard time expressing what they feel and if the woman does not know that Asperger is the problem she will end up using what she knows about the meaning of certain NT behaviors to draw her conclusions.

I don't see the sense in avoiding a group of people as romantic prospects for speculative reasons. Virtually any reason one can come up with is speculative, in this case, especially since people don't even really know what autism is: it's just something that manifests itself in a particular collection of behaviours. If you clashed with some particular people who happened to be diagnosed with AS, fair enough, it just seems like you're acting against your own interests if you rule them out immediately.

Now that I'm done defending AS men, yes as far as I can tell AS women on the mean marry more and have more partners. The reason some of the men give here, that being socially awkward or strange doesn't matter quite as much to men seeking women as women seeking men (though after a point, it does matter), seems plausible.