Who else here would feel kinda awkward dating another aspie?

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It does feel awkward. But it's a shared awkwardness. We're perfectly comfortable being awkward together.

This covers my thoughts on the matter, as well. Pair the right 2 aspies together and the awkwardtivity of it is shared peacefully, and not a sole burden

I've been dating an aspie for almost 2 years and I think it's great. We get each other and there is no need for weird explanations.

My 2nd girlfriend thought she was an Aspie & my current one thinks she might could be one too but she's not sure. It never felt awkward to me with either. I had met both on these forums & had gotten to know each other awhile before we met up. It didn't work out with my 2nd girlfriend because our relationship personalities were incomparable. She was very independent, liked doing her own thing a lot & had problems with emotional closeness; I'm dependent & kind of clingy & needy thou I am somewhat better now than what I was partly because I'm on anxiety & OCD medication. My current girlfriend's kind of the opposite of my 2nd one in those ways so we're more on the same level. I think I would have major problems with an NT girl because I'm very direct & straightforward & am oblivious to subtlety so a typical NT would find me rude & offensive & misinterpret a lot of what I say

I don't think I would

I don't know I haven't met a aspie woman yet. I don't think all the women on WP represents aspie woman in general. So if I was to make the assumption based of WP I would say maybe. I'm indecisive, which isn't helping
A lot of these women, are still coming into adulthood, they might be fully developed but I guess they are still finding themselves.

It's been pretty good for me so far. heck, just having the freedom to stim has been awesome

it sucks there are more male aspies than female aspies

That term may describe me too. I managed a few dates in the past 2 years already off of regular sites, so I don't have to find an aspie woman, but it may work better if I do (preferably borderline). Just don't see too many over 40 on these forums.

Diagnosed, there are.

It does suck that women are so underdiagnosed

And the diagnosis itself is going to be phased out when the DSM-5 is released in a few months.

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well they're removing the distinction, since the only quantitative diagnostic difference had been age of first speech, I don't think that's a bad choice
they do need to do a better job id-ing non-typical presentations, but they already weren't doing that before the change
I ID as autistic anyway for political reasons so I admittedly don't really have a stake in it

You think it might be because women are generally considered the more social gender? In the same way men don't want to report being abused by their wives because they're supposed to be the stronger gender? Generalizations, I know, but common enough to be of consideration. Would women be MORE embarassed about social difficulties when they're expected to be all super-social n' stuff?

There are a lot of reasons girls are underdiagnosed, the big one in my estimation, which is based just on research and a couple classes is that autism specturm disorder studies almost never include female participants. So information about autism and the DSM is all based on male presentation of the disorder.
We're more likely to have different kinds of special interests, to work harder to mimic social behaviour (because I think of the higher price of bad social skills for girls), our stims are likely to be different etc. so when looking for male coded autism, female autistics slip through the cracks.
Also some on the symptoms that are common are more likely to raise alarm in boys than girls. A girl who is quiet and not into sports or aggressive is normal, a boy clearly has an issue if he's not a rowdy boys will be boys type (right? pshh). Girls who don't make eye-contact are shy and docile, boy's aren't expected to be those things.

I don't think the rate of diagnosis has anything to do with women being less likely to self report due to embarrassment as this is most commonly a juvenile diagnosis (if handled properly), or for some people and many girls an adolescent diagnosis. So it has a lot to do with what teachers and parents see and expect.
I do anecdotally notice this phenomenon with women getting diagnosed after their young sons are, but I don't think that is the norm or particularly common.

Interestingly, my mother has mentioned a few times that I should date someone who has AS because we'd be similar. But I already know that those similarities would conflict and cause problems in such a relationship. I have a hard enough time communicating with people face to face, it would be impossible with someone who has the same communication problems that I do, there'd be frustration and god only knows what else.

It's less of a headache if I just don't bother with that.
The ironic thing is, there aren't many women out there, that's "normal", that would date someone with AS, nor would I wish that on anyone (because I have AS, I know what it's like to live around me, it's not good).