smudge wrote:
She is becoming obsessed and you guys are encouraging it. It is setting her up to get heartbroken. None of us even know what's going on.
I don't find that really bad, and we don't know if she will get heartbroken or not. In my experience, it's not situations like the one Kitty is in that causes neurodiverse people to get a really bad heartbreak. This typically is caused by dating, or getting feelings for friends. Rather, the slow process of getting to know each others seems to have multiple mechanisms that aborts it. There also is no rejection because people are not talking so cannot reject each other. Rejection only happens by one of the persons ignoring the other, and this is not as bad as being rejected and then expected to "move on" when this is somebody you might see regularly.