aside from sperm, what good are men?
Except I am going out of my way to get more socialization and meet more people. I just happen to have accepted that my chances of a good relationship (and I won't settle for a relationship that is mediocre, I'd rather be alone than in an indifferent relationship) are low, and that I don't befriend people as easily or keep new friends as easily as NTs.
Work on yourself for yourself. You're making it about how you compare to other people. Working on myself makes me happier with myself. I have low self esteem and self worth. Being happier with myself is a good thing. You don't have to isolate yourself either.
Have you tried befriending other aspie people offline? Most of my friends are aspies and it helps immensely because they aren't put off by the weird stuff the same way NTs are.
If you're going to be lonely either way better to be lonely with things to do. I'm not speaking of finding absolute success. I'm speaking of finding ways to be content (I say content because people aren't happy all the time - when things go well long term we're content) and enjoy life even when you don't have something you want.
The only reason I didn't mention continuing looking for whatever it is you want while you focus on you is because that's on hold for me. I realised I also had no chance of having a long term relationship (as opposed to a significantly low chance) because my abandonment issues and low self esteem were causing me to sabotage my relationships. Essentially, get rid of them before they can get rid of me. Inability to hear anything good they have to say about me, and only focus on the negative and why that means I'm not good enough for anyone unless they're terrible and mistreat me lol.
I'm not disagreeing with the science you posted the reason I said what I did was in response to them. By their own standards we'd mostly be dead.
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im not sure, i mean, me and my future whoever im with, arn't useful for anything at all in this case, as im gay, so the person id be with would also be a guy our half means nothing and in nature we serve no purpose, its strange to think, that even though i am a guy, i know so little about guys, guess we're something to look at right? (well not me, im not that great to look at, but you know, the other ones). uhhhhh..................video games? commonly into video games so if you are too...thats someone to play with?
i don't know, this is just all guesses, ive never actually been in an actual relationship like that before but on an evolutionary scale it goes like this:
males are the warriors, fighters, protectors, food getters. women are the carers, raisers of offspring and generally close guards to the offspring, they shape who the children will be.
in order to reproduce, the males half, and the females half are required and are not optional in natures view, both take 50% of the contribution in order to create the child, and so are both equal parts of this process.
it makes sense that there are more males then females if you think about it: one female is required to guard the home or nest to raise the offspring (or maybe 2), but perhaps depending on the environment, 5,6 or even 10 males are needed in order to gather sufficient food for them all, and the young, fend off others of the same species, and predators, so males are essentially extra bodies as the male gender is built to fight, and the females is not, it is built to care and help young, but in nature neither can exist without the other, so the male is super important, but so is the female. so yes, in a biological sense, males are very important.
however in today's society, males arn't so important, as time goes on, we are becoming obsolete, the world is built to be survived in by the intelligent, not the strong, males are typically strong, but not smart, females are typically smart, but not strong. so in today's society, women are overall considerable more useful then males, infact males serve almost no purpose other then to give that other side of the baby making process, if science discovers a way to initiate a successful and side effectless pregnancy is females, then males are now pointless, we serve no purpose in society at all, everything we could possibly do, in theory, women could do better, perhaps after this point evolution will eventually eliminate the male gender, however since today we are able to shape our environment, that can't happen, survival of the fitist dictates that those who cannot survive are eliminated from the gene pool, and thus the human race is shaped, but we humans won't, and can't die from this method, everyone can survive no matter who they are, so the male gender will continue to be produced, simply because in natures eyes, males serve a purpose and wont be eliminated, love also takes a play in this, most females can and will fall in love with a member of the male gender, and thus mate with them even though there is an artificial way of achieving the same result, so males will still be accepted into the human race, although will not be as high in population, perhaps even women will out number men, simply because there will be a good amount of women who choose to artificially have a child, so never accept a male, and so the need for as many males decreases, so less are born.
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i don't know, this is just all guesses, ive never actually been in an actual relationship like that before but on an evolutionary scale it goes like this:
males are the warriors, fighters, protectors, food getters. women are the carers, raisers of offspring and generally close guards to the offspring, they shape who the children will be.
in order to reproduce, the males half, and the females half are required and are not optional in natures view, both take 50% of the contribution in order to create the child, and so are both equal parts of this process.
it makes sense that there are more males then females if you think about it: one female is required to guard the home or nest to raise the offspring (or maybe 2), but perhaps depending on the environment, 5,6 or even 10 males are needed in order to gather sufficient food for them all, and the young, fend off others of the same species, and predators, so males are essentially extra bodies as the male gender is built to fight, and the females is not, it is built to care and help young, but in nature neither can exist without the other, so the male is super important, but so is the female. so yes, in a biological sense, males are very important.
however in today's society, males arn't so important, as time goes on, we are becoming obsolete, the world is built to be survived in by the intelligent, not the strong, males are typically strong, but not smart, females are typically smart, but not strong. so in today's society, women are overall considerable more useful then males, infact males serve almost no purpose other then to give that other side of the baby making process, if science discovers a way to initiate a successful and side effectless pregnancy is females, then males are now pointless, we serve no purpose in society at all, everything we could possibly do, in theory, women could do better, perhaps after this point evolution will eventually eliminate the male gender, however since today we are able to shape our environment, that can't happen, survival of the fitist dictates that those who cannot survive are eliminated from the gene pool, and thus the human race is shaped, but we humans won't, and can't die from this method, everyone can survive no matter who they are, so the male gender will continue to be produced, simply because in natures eyes, males serve a purpose and wont be eliminated, love also takes a play in this, most females can and will fall in love with a member of the male gender, and thus mate with them even though there is an artificial way of achieving the same result, so males will still be accepted into the human race, although will not be as high in population, perhaps even women will out number men, simply because there will be a good amount of women who choose to artificially have a child, so never accept a male, and so the need for as many males decreases, so less are born.
The number difference between women and men is so small as to be negligible. I believe the male population is about 50.4% to 49.6% of women. And that's kind of not accurate because this doesn't factor in binary and non binary trans people.
Evolutionarily speaking women were gatherers actually, and as is the case still in modern hunter gatherer societies most food is found by gatherers, not hunters.
And again a man and a man can reproduce, as can a woman and a woman. And now with science, people with uteruses can reproduce without someone with a penis.
There are plenty of intelligent men, so I'm not sure what you mean. Men aren't stupid, slavering beasts, even if they act like it sometimes lol.
Either way regardless of gender people have a place in life. Reproduction isn't the only thing people are here for lol. I never want to reproduce and am in fact disgusted by the idea of being pregnant or raising a kid. I don't feel that that not having kids lessens me as a person. Neither should you.
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Nearly everyone finds a close romantic partner sooner or later, but this fact doesn't make those few eternal singletons happier. I wouldn't feel better knowing that nearly everyone fulfills this basic need, but not me, because I'm so weird that I fit in the tiny fraction of population for which there is no partner to be found. Luckily, I did find love, but some people won't.
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Nearly everyone finds a close romantic partner sooner or later, but this fact doesn't make those few eternal singletons happier. I wouldn't feel better knowing that nearly everyone fulfills this basic need, but not me, because I'm so weird that I fit in the tiny fraction of population for which there is no partner to be found. Luckily, I did find love, but some people won't.
you're one of the lucky ones to have found somebody on your wavelength so early in your life.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news ... en-6490993
This study confirms what you found--guys your age aren't interested in gals their age--you don't exist.
Biologically, this makes sense--you are past the age in which the probability of having kids goes way down.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_and_female_fertility
In humans, a woman's fertility peaks in the early and mid-20s, after which it starts to decline slowly, with a more dramatic drop at around 35.[1] At age 45, a woman starting to try to conceive will have no live birth in 50-80 percent of cases
Since most women will date guys a few years older than them, if a guy wants to settle down and raise a family, it makes sense for older guys to go for younger women.
Want proof? Polyamory! It seems like an just an alternative lifestyle on the surface, but it's pretty insidious. It shows an evolutionary regression to where alpha males snagged up multiple women, leaving beta males in the dust. After all, the biological sex ratio is still 1:1. So, each alpha male starts practicing polyamory and takes four women each. A small group of men will settle for women the alpha males rejected. This still leaves a vast number of men who will never have sex in their entire lives. Unless, of course, they do what I did, and pay $300 an hour. Or they'll "seek arrangement" (google it) for $3000. Conversely, for men who can't afford either, there'll be porn for $19.99 a month; heck, there's even $5.99 a month varieties, but those sites gotta contain malware.
There's even a theory about why terrorism is so prevalent in Islam. It's the only mass religion that allows polygyny, I think up to four wives each, which matches the 20/80 rule from earlier. So the top 20% of men snag up four desirable wives each. Next 20% of men find one wife they begrudgingly settle for. This leaves 60% of men alone and angry. And what happens when they're angry, and want to feel like alpha males at least briefly? Al Qaeda, ISIS, and storming off to Germany and Sweden to wreak havoc.
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You alpha male s**t is not accurate lol. It's not evolutionarily how anything works. That's PUA pseudoscience. Women on a whole are more attracted to more sensitive, caring, and emotional men.
In many other species this is the case too. Look at bonobos. They're very sexual, essentially have lots of casual sex (and lots of gay sex and have oral sex), and they cast violent males out of their societies.
Why are men who are socially inept so obsessed with the concept of alpha males. Just accept that people are judgmental when it comes to things like mental and developmental disorders. It's not because you're "beta" it's because you're acting different than what humans expect other humans to act and it makes people uncomfortable. It's sh***y, and it's obviously not your fault if it's symptoms of your aspergers, but it's not proof of some alpha male conspiracy.
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We aren't chimps though. We're far evolved from the common ancestor and we can control ourselves.
And in my experience women prefer sensitive and kind men. The guy I had my only serious relationship with 3 years ago was incredibly popular with girls in high school and was always in a relationship and had girls who had a crush on him. You know what? He was a 6 at best and was slightly overweight. Girls liked him because he was sensitive and listened and was just friendly.
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Actually, it's possible we are genetically closer to bonobos than chimps.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v4 ... 11128.html
http://io9.gizmodo.com/5794988/are-huma ... s-changing
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