Disclosing Asperger's to a potential date and fallout

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I've enjoyed online dating but

Over the weekend, I struck up a conversation with a young woman on a dating site (who interestingly enough I had messaged on another site in the past!) about my age who lives almost an hour away (by train). We hit it off pretty quickly and our conversations got pretty serious, to the point where she decided to call me on Tuesday. During the phone call I disclosed my Asperger's (which she had given me no reason not to disclose) but mentioned how she works at an after school program and mentioned how one of the kids (who also has Asperger's) was (to paraphrase) misbehaving and (to make a two minute story short) figuratively left her with a bad taste.

We texted a little after that but yesterday it was night and day. Usually she would text the heck out of me and yesterday she didn't reply to my good morning text, it took her all day to reply to my Snapchat message and this morning after seeing that she had posted a story, I said f*ck this and deleted her off of Instagram and Snapchat.

I've disclosed my Asperger's from time to time but it's gotten to the point where I can hide it pretty well to the point or where it only shows when I'm under stress or if someone gets to know my barely noticeable quirks. I'm refusing to mention it ever again.

Is this a classic case of things went too fast and she ghosted me or did my impatience show through? I could have texted her to see what was up, but a friend said to forget her.

Thoughts? Comments?

That's a shame. :/

Sorry to hear.

I guess she's got a prejudice.

I told my now-wife about it after maybe two months of dating. I wanted her to get her get to know and like me without any preconceptions. She did, so when I finally told her, it was pretty anticlimactic. She already thought I was "eccentric," so that just explained some things for her.

It's gone both ways for me. Either I hit it off with someone, or they compare me to their 8 year old cousin who smears poop on the walls. If the match has it or can relate to it, an 8 hour conversation is coming. So, it's a good reward. Just not likely to happen.

With that said.. you only spent 3 days having short conversations with this girl. Don't invest so much into it. I realize we don't get much attention from the opposite sex, so we don't take these opportunities for granted, but if you invest so much into someone you don't know at all.. things will go south, I promise. Just relax, enjoy the conversations and temper expectations. Focus on just getting to know her and enjoying the time you spend talking to her.

Telling others about your autism is the best way to avoid delaying their misunderstandings.

I prefer to know what others think of me quickly rather than invest time and money to be ignored or worse, anyway.

If your relationship with this girl doesn't work out just because of your AS, remember it will never be your fault.

Turns out my initial impressions​ were somewhat wrong. We spoke on the phone yesterday, Skyped last night AND again this afternoon. I'm enjoying getting to know her, and we're talking about hanging out soon.