AS girls (good looking to decent looking) automatically get

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I thought about this and it seems fairly logical, actually. If there isn't a tendency for "likes to attract likes", and assuming that a female attracts a random male from the population and the rate of autism is 1 out of 100, the likelihood the person she attracts will be NT is 99%.

Surprising conclusion.

If there's any "positive assortative mating" (Likes tending to attract likes), you might expect that to decrease to 98% but it's definitely not automatically tilting in the AS guys' favor.

Conversely, an AS guy has a 99+% chance of attracting someone NT... if he attracts someone to begin with. So, the more relevant question for AS guys is whether a given AS guy can attract someone AT ALL, let alone worrying about attracting an AS female who's a rare bird in the population.

I have to say before I go any further, I only have my experiences as an AS male, and the experiences I've read about from AS people of both sexes I've read about, and the (very) few other AS people I've met to draw on when coming to my conclusions. I'm in no way proposing them as a concrete matter of fact, just a theory. The few other autistic people I knew growing up were low functioning, and were kept in special needs classes, so I couldn't observe how any other AS individuals dealt with their upbringings. But from what I've experienced, the sort of competitiveness typical of NT males makes it less common for AS males to even be given a chance among their same sex peers.

Also, I'm not addressing whether or not it's easier for males or females to maintain a relationship. In that case, it's more likely than not a wash. I'm simply saying that since males are both more visually stimulated and more aggressive, it's more likely for an attractive AS female to end up in a relationship than a male.

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BS.

That doesn't make any sense. Aren't both NT and AS males more visually stimulated and aggressive than females? (usually)

Men with Aspergers often do not have the social skills to be aggressive in their pursuit of a woman. Either he never asks due to insecurity, or he asks and gets turned down a lot, and becomes insecure.

Oh... I thought the OP meant more aggressive in general.

Well a lot of men are in that situation. There are plenty of NT men who are insecure or have a rejection complex- some due to situations like you described and some because they ask out everybody in sight (which of course would result in a high percentage of no's.)

Plus, women get rejected too. It happened to me enough that I don't really go out of my way to pursue anybody.

This is true. I'd be curious to see the percentages.

From my experience, it would be a pretty big percentage.

I've given up on dating until I can find someone that has self-confidence and doesn't sit there complaining about all the other girls that rejected them, or exaggerating their flaws calling themselves ugly, fat, etc.

Hahahahahahahaha! I so wish this were true. I'm 44, I'm still waiting for that. I have f****d up every relationship I've ever had. And we're not talking a ton of relationships.

It's worth exactly nothing, to me. I got bullied constantly, up through college and beyond, by women. I don't know what kind of world you live in, I'd like to visit.

no point in this thread, or trying to explain something that is the truth. I'd rather be used than be alone.
women has easier access to sex, and better orgasms. so unfair.

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This is why I'm never having a relationship with the opposite sex. I'm scared I'll be taken advantage of or be forced into sex. And because most people see me as a pretty girl, this makes me even more afraid!