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Ok that was from tuttle(above) from the tell me about aspie women thread. This what Im talking about. How is that this lady. who is Im sure a very, very nice lady. be able to get a boyfriend. where she can't even make a friend male or female. she can't fit into society. Im not mad at tuttle Im sure she a good lady. This what Im saying. There are so many women out there who have no disorder. who can fit into society. who can easily make friends of both gender. Yet have no boyfriends. Im sorry, tuttle. this is what Im trying to say
Tuttle didn't say she can't make friends. She said it's hard for her. Similar to the way you could run a marathon, but it would be hard for you. (Assuming you have the time to train for it. Autistic people train for their whole lives.) We are usually (~75% of the time) introverts, but even an introvert wants and needs some social contact, if only the exchange of ideas on a forum like WP. The interesting thing about introverts, in fact, is that while we do not make a lot of friends, we tend to have deep, meaningful relationships with the few friends we do make. And there are autistic extroverts, too--the ones who talk to everyone, whom everyone knows, who are often confidently eccentric, the embodiment of the active-but-odd socialization style.
Fitting into society is not a prerequisite for having friends. Being different, being disabled, does not mean you will automatically be rejected. There are a lot of people--some disabled, some not--who actually prefer to interact with those who aren't quite normal. Look in any university science department; talk to the people peering through microscopes or working out equations. Check out the people backstage at the theater, or look up the local cat lady (and her six cats). Talk to immigrants and exchange students. Find artists, writers, musicians--or even stay-at-home parents with a playful take on life, or social savants who delight in connecting with just about anyone, equally at home chatting with a socialite or partying with a biker gang. There are eccentrics everywhere you look, and they won't be put off by an autistic's clumsy socialization. Many of them actually prefer it, because when you're autistic, you aren't good at deception or social games, so you don't really try to play them, because you'd be caught out in an instant. What you see is what you get, when it comes to most autistics. We've got an unusual perspective on the world--senses that pick up every detail whether we like it or not; the ability to fall in love with the oddest subjects, to see them with the excitement of a child discovering them for the first time.
There are, in short, quite a few people who have rejected the popular notion that a "desirable" person is pretty, successful, and conventionally charming. And they are discovering beauty of human diversity.