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If you made an effort to be a little more direct in your style of communication with people, I have a feeling people would respond more positively to you because they would have a better sense of where you're coming from.

I personally enjoy playing with language/word games and sometimes use formal or unusual language, but I try to limit that somewhat unless I'm talking to someone who knows that about me and is comfortable with the way I use language, because it puts some people off. I'm not being less myself by slightly changing the way I use language around people I don't know as well or who are less accepting of differences, I'm just keeping to myself and saving what I consider my fun qualities for people who appreciate those things about me.

Sometimes you have to make little adjustments like that to prevent pushing people away, it's just part of socializing because we are all different so we have to always be making little compromises to communicate and interact with people. We're not equally compatible with everyone we interact with because we're all individual, so with most people you have to make these little adjustments and compromises to smooth things over socially.

You're not faking a personality or being "inauthentic" or anything like that by making these small compromises, you're just making the necessary effort to smooth socialization. That's just how human interaction works most of the time, you have to work a bit to meet people in the middle.

EDIT: for spelling.

Or the right person doesn’t exist and like millions of others we are doomed to be alone forever

Or the right person does exist----and you will be proven to be incorrect.

Honestly
ASD people can make great partners it is the world who doesn’t realize they are missing out
ASD men (like my little brother who had hidden his diagnosis frm us that he received frm the school psychologist) are caring and interesting.
They are not out there to manipulate and ruin your life
They prefer honesty and simplicity
If women realized this they would flock to them


I know 2 of my brothers have ASD one is diagnosed one isn’t but he is actually more obviously ASd he just refuses to get diagnosed as it is costly
They are both good people and also would make great husbands

They shd make many many movies with big Hollywood names,
showcasing ASD men n women in positive n appealing light as I think that wd make everyone realize the treasure that such ppl are.

I hope u feel better soon. I didn’t realize u were sad as u come across as a very even tempered n calm person . I guess you just were keeping it restrained

You're so right here. I think ASD people can make great partners, especially to each other because we can understand each other a little easier than we can understand neurotypical people. The trouble is that we are such a small minority in our relative communities, finding compatible people IRL is a bit more of a slog statistically speaking. We are rarer so we have to look harder for each other. That's been my experience anyway, that I tend to "click" or connect with people much more rarely than those around me, and the people I tend to click with are usually--for lack of a better term--spectrumy. Not always, but more often than not I would say in hindsight the people I tend to connect with are different in some way that makes them rare.

I believe that's at least a component of the social issues many of us have--how comparatively small our community is. I don't want to be simplistic and say it's all about odds, but I think that is a part of it.

I'd rather not have to appreciate that in hindsight.

I wonder if anyone in my life knows that I noticed my own tendencies in them.

I'm moderately afraid of this even if I want to see it happen too. Everything about me is camera ahy even if it's portrayed by someone who's not. I hope people in my life are thinking about these themes but I don't know if more people will present ASD as a disability or just weirdness.

Sorry I don’t quite understand what u said there. Do u mean you are afraid of undue or unwanted attention? Or u are afraid of inaccurate n bad portrayals?

Ohhh or are u afraid that ppl will see those portrayals in movies n expect AlL ASD people to follow that pattern n have that personality ?? Like a stock character n stereotype that keeps repeating out of sheer laziness n unoriginality?


Like the ‘requisite funny black man’ character

except now it will be the ‘requisite quirky ASD person’ character?

Sorry about my typos, I guess my answer to that is all of the above. I want to be represented but I'm not sure anyone's prepared to do that. I live in multiple cultures that are distinct from what anyone might actually want to watch.

I'm not sure broadcasting technology is the solution to being stereotyped as an accessory to technology. Being a geek is socially exhausting.

Just having ASD is not the same thing to me as what I do & who I am because of it. There's nothing but stigma to deal with socially as a hacker, even though I'm the basically harmless scientific kind.

I think it's a good idea to try to change something anyway, but I can still see what you mean.

That would be attributed to me, whatever exact post that was I had written.

I don't really do all that much lamentation. When I'm actually around people I'm happy to be there & that's that. Feeling excluded however is another issue.

Maybe try and find adrenaline activities that has a decent amount of girls attending. You may never know.

But I know what your feeling. Aspies and other neurodiverse are supposed to have at least as much empathy as NTs, but it sucks that some ND or aspie women overlook their men and go for a more socioeconomically successful man anyway. It's throwing the already-rejected group under the bus or like "selling-out".

I wish I was born before the 1960s or 1970s. Living during those earlier times were less convenient in some ways, but it doesn't sound as bad as people who are jealous of the younger people today for their technology say they remember it.

Sadly, I don't know how feminism today can ever go away. Nothing cberg or others are complaining about isn't women as collective per-se, but those very loud minority voices who unfortunately ruin it for all of us.

I am asking this as a real question, how in this world do you consciously adjust your daily conversational style to direct, when you aren't really that style to begin with?

Feminism shouldn't be confused with misandry. I think everyone is guilty of sexism to some extent, it best not to sweat it.