Does "Let's just be friends" exist between aspies?

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So...it exists.

Well done Boo, you've proved it.

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The misspellers get the girls?

It could also have meant inappropriately nice for the amount of time they'd known each other.
Treating someone like your best friend when you've known them for a week will creep them out.

Sorry, slight necro, but I think the main problem for trying to get something going after becoming friends is that for most girls they want something from the beginning, they want you to be so interested in them that its obvious instantly when u meet. Let it slip and getting something going afterwards is extremely difficult.

I sincerely believe that if you'd been instantly interested in that same girl that friend zoned you, like from the beginning when u first met, things could have turned out differently. And I know u don't know them or whatever, that u have to get to know them before you know if u like them, just it does seem to work the way I said. Its so important for things to start right, otherwise you're talking years of getting to know them before you can change things.

I have several times. We wound up being friends for a while but it never usually lasts. She finds someone else and since she was never looking for friendship from me in the first place as soon as she gets that fill of some guy in her life she stops being my friend.




This.

That is how I go about getting relationships. As soon as I meet a girl I will demonstrate a subtle interest. To the point where she could go back to her friends and be like, "I think he likes me but I'm not sure?"
It really depends on the girl and the situation as every case is different. Sometimes I'll flirt right away as soon as we meet, sometimes I'll give it a day or two.

I'll start flirting, if she doesn't flirt back, I won't keep flirting, if she does, I'll keep it up until I've hung out with her and gotten to know her for a period of time. After I feel comfortable enough I'll ask her out.

This way has never failed me. What has not worked for me in the past was meeting a girl, being friends with her without flirting or revealing in any way that I might like her... Then all the sudden some time later I'll be like, "I LYK U" and then she'd be like, "Uh, you're a great guy BUT we're just friends."

If you meet her as a potential romantic interest, and don't take forever to flirt and eventually ask her out, - you'll more than likely avoid the friend zone. That's how I have all these years.

I have a number of friends who I guess I have "friend-zoned". None of them because they are nice, though.

Them being nice is part of the reason I wanted to maintain a friendship rather than going our separate ways, it's NOT the reason I wasn't interested in them romantically. Ever.

attraction is a complicated feeling and is not static, especially with women. If someone tells you "let's just be friends" it doesn't mean they weren't (or aren't) attracted to you, or won't be in the future.

Exactly. This has to be true, as I have said it to partners. I valued their friendship but was no longer attracted to them. I've also discovered down the track that I was attracted to someone who had been a friend for quite a while.

Yes, it does exist. I think before getting in a romantic relationship, one should befriend the other, and get to know each other for quite some time, learning things about each other, and things like that. So, if you know the person the best, you could consider if you could get on a romantic relationship sometime. Also, by being already friends, you'd be already emotionally close, and stuff like that.
I haven't had a romantic relationship yet, but that's what I would want myself.

More than the nitpickers.........