Poor interaction at its best

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I realize I don't know many of you that well, but I had a very sad situation occur recently.

I had heard in an interview from someone who I had seen on TV years ago that she understands the autism spectrum because she said she had cousins on it. She also admitted she had ADD.

I had been friends with her on Facebook and she had been posting statements that I don't approve of. I gave her the benefit of the doubt because she understood the autism spectrum until now.

For those of you Americans who like children's game shows, I have bad news for you. The current version of Double Dare with Liza Koshy has been canceled by Nickelodeon.

I tried to inform my friend above about it, but she told me not to tell her or mention it again.

The thing is though, that she had a relationship with Marc Summers, the host, a while back because he appeared as a guest star on a show she hosted for a time. Marc Summers was involved in the new Double Dare because he was Liza Koshy's announcer. I informed her that Marc would be out of a job and she could collaborate with him on something sometime. However, she had watched the old Double Dare more than the new Double Dare. Interestingly enough, I sent her a video clip of the new Double Dare where Liza lost her voice and Marc hosted the show for a little while.

Granted, it was not Liza or Marc's fault that the show was canceled. It was Nickelodeon's fault because they scheduled the show very sporadically.

My female friend asked me if it was her problem. I said no, but I told her that she could collaborate with Marc in the future.

Finally, I was accused by one of her friends of being a troll. He is wrong on so many levels. Back before I took a break from the site, there was a lot of drama going on, and Alex began to suspect that I was a troll. Well, I've matured a lot and I've gained more empathy for people than most of you know.

My female friend has blocked me on Facebook per her male friend's advice. I am now engaged in a Twitter war with her. I apologized to her for my actions, but I also stated that for someone who claims to understand the autism spectrum, she is unpredictable.

She has since deleted my tweet, I have reported this and I have muted her on Twitter. She can still send me a direct message if she wants to reply to me.

Unfortunately, I haven't heard from Twitter about the situation, so I don't know what they're going to do about it.

Why would someone so genuine, who is so friendly with other people, lie to me?

Honestly, I read the post twice and I couldn't identify where she lied to you.

Trying to put together professionally people who used to have a relationship, even mentioning one's ex, often makes people react emotionally.

I agree with Mags, people do not want to discuss their exes or have anyone suggest they collaborate with them.

It seems an innocent mistake on your part. Unfortunately this is one of those relationship things an NT would just know. It's not your fault that you didn't understand that.

You should have just let it go. It's the going on about something when the other person has indicated that they are not interested that gets one labelled as a troll.

It's because you didn't take no for an answer.

Its better to let it go now.

She claimed she understood the autism spectrum when she in fact did not.

I hope to hear from Twitter soon.

By the way, this relationship was professional, and not romantic.

This young lady went way overboard.

Being wrong is not the same as lying.
She probably genuinely thinks she understands autism.
But even if she really understands autism to some degree, which is possible, she can still misunderstand a message from an autistic person.

I hope you get comfortable with each other again soon.

Me too