I don't want be alone

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Gee Willikers that sounds like my kind of party!

Hello, hurtloam.

I know exactly how you feel because I've been there. I remember being passed over many times during my life. In today's modern era of disposable relationships, it can seem like you're getting the proverbial shaft.

I've been on many dates and gotten rejected many times. It's very difficult to find someone who actually gets what life with Asperger's is like, and I have ended up losing relationships because of a single fatal mistake. Now I haven't done anything that would be considered major transgressions, but still it racks my brain.

However, there are some things that I keep in mind to prevent hopelessness from taking over.

Engaging in relationships is a process of elimination, you are in effect crossing off unsuitable partners until you find a suitable one. While you may lose many potential suitors, you only need one of them to become your partner.

Perception is powerful, and sometimes it can be more powerful than the reality in front of us. I have found that if I can change my perception to match reality, it makes it much easier to deal with. That can be hard because recognizing the difference between perception and reality is very difficult to do but it's possible.

Some of my friends have given up on trying to find love, probably for the time being since leaving dating is a lot like leaving Facebook. Deep down, we all know that we can't really leave. I have not, even though my experience largely mirrors theirs and it's for a good reason.

There are two possible outcomes to an attempt to date. Either a success or failure. But there is one way to guarantee a failure and that's to stop trying.

I know the feeling. I've given up on relationships, due to a lack of people I connect with, and there being too much BS involved.

Plus I don't think my interests and religious/political beliefs can be reconcilable.

I don't know why, but I've only just seen this post.

It takes years to get into social housing here too, and yeh, people rent privately and have housing benefits to reduce the rent partially. Sometimes they give a council place from their stock to someone when they're homeless. Back when I was 17 I think there was a little more housing stock, but these days you would often just be put in a hostel instead, which isn't really that nice. I was very lucky.

I will just add as a point of interest, there are also housing charities called housing associations, which is like council housing with reduced rent, but with rules of their own. The major differences are that HAs often don't have Right To Buy like council housing does, and a HA can also buy housing privately...anywhere, poor or rich areas. Meaning that, they could buy housing which is normally rented at say £2500 a month, and rent it out at council housing prices (£500).

I wasn't only depressed because of the neighbour situation, but because it looked really promising that I could swap with this lady with a HA flat, who lived in a road full of multi-millionaires, including a bloke who worked with Marilyn Monroe, and another who invited the Queen over (! !) and had bought old fashioned street lamps for the whole street. It was surrounded by trees, and smack bang next to Greenwich Park. It was f***ing BEAUTIFUL. The flat I looked at was in the same building and the rent differences were those mentioned above - the private flats next door, exactly the same flats, were about £2500 a month, the HA ones were £500. When the lady wanted to swap with me, it felt like I had a chance of winning the lottery. She was *really* interested in my flat. Then, at the last minute, she changed her mind. I think it was one of the biggest blows I've ever received.

Really? People always complain about my grammar and writing

Maybe you have a very British way of expressing yourself without intending it and I just find your writing style easy to understand.

I'll be honest there's some American publications that I find really difficult to read because of the sentence structure. I don't read the New York times now it's subscription only, but the syntax is a bit bizarre to me sometimes. I have a friend who lived in new York and she says that once you live there the writing style makes sense because it's just how the phrase things and you get used to it.

What kind of sentence structure should I be using?