Taking an online course to avoid social disappointment

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Well, how I go along in school at least, is that I just find the few I know that are my friends and don't try to be socially accepted, because it's easier with the ones who accept for me, even w/ my Asperger's.

Life never gets any easier when you have Aspergers. Learning social skills are waste of time when people are still going to reject you, bully you and ignore you. There is no therapy or cure Aspergers. Aspergers is strongly linked to chronic loneliness and not being accepted by people. I doubt people have Aspergers, when they claim how easy they find it to make friends and fit into social situations. There are no benefits to having Aspergers. You can be intelligent and achieve high marks in STEM and you will still not be socially accepted because of your Aspergers.

Don't underestimate what relatives and friends can do for you.

Do they know you strive for a girlfriend?

Tell them. They can't just watch you be consumed and decline.

Marriage is a group effort and group success. Just look at the hooks on a wedding dress. Have a grasp of how many persons are needed for the dress alone. For dates and matches it's a bit similar.

I would cut your toxic father out of your life. He is more than likely the source of most of your problems in life. Disregard his advice with the line, Ok Boomer!

^^Not meaning to be rude but I've been watching this thread and nobody feeds another bro toxic information.

You tell him Aspergers' can't get better, that learning social skills is helpless. I've got the same stuff and I can tell you all that it very much does improve. You have to let Aspergers be only what it is--a mental disorder--instead of doing like a lot of folks and letting a mental decision define who and what you are.

Just because I'm a man doesn't mean I am going to let ye olde twig and berries make all my decisions for me. And just because I'm autistic doesn't mean I'm condemned to sit about bewailing why I can't be the same as all the people I don't like, spending money I don't have to impress folks I don't know.

Really, people, if I was serious and believed all the "nobody loves me, everyone hates me, I'm gonna eat a worm" stuff that the autistic community talks I would have already killed myself.

Instead, since I don't believe a word of this bosh, I combine my special interests with a sense of duty and take life head-on, and it seems to work. I burn out a lot, but that's OK. I'llnever be as tough as everyone else physically but when that 'Tard Strength kicks in watch out! I'll be busy for a while!

My clothing choices suck. But since I started being creative about it other folks think I have kind of a cool style. Got tons of compliments the other day from a bunch of college bros. My style is straight out of the 1900s but they still think it's cool. What it takes is clean clothes that fit, and a little confidence. My social skills are not so great. So instead of working a crowd, I concentrate on one person at a time, without being weird about it. My "best girl" ghosted me almost the whole holiday season. I didn't go calling and calling; I just waited a little bit, called her one day, and she rang up late that evening with stories of great fun and adventure. Instead of weird, it was just cute, and I'm glad she had a fun time with her family. My car is a leaking, shaking, smoking anachronism on wheels. Guess what--I had to teach myself to fix it or be stuck on the side of the road. (It's broken down in parking lots before, and I had to get out and figure how to crank the thing before I got discovered stuck in the middle of nowhere. It was the battery cable.)

In short, WE CAN DO THIS!

Let no one tell you otherwise.

Blaming all problems on another human being is not the right way to do it, either. I have personal experience with that which I won't go into here, but let's just say that self-improvement is a necessity, not a luxury granted only to NTs.

If you want to wallow in the mire, fellow Aspies, that is your prerogative. Let it not be said, though, that our situation is hopeless: however, if you want to identify yourself only with our shared mental disorder and not with your own glorious dignity as human beings, then all y'all are free to be as miserable and petty as you please. But I kind of think you're cool and are better than that.

^ You're otherwise right, but aspergers is not a mental disorder, it's neurological. Same with autism.

I see...physical. The brain.

Quite right, but the point stands. We have got different brains, but the only thing wrong with them is most of the ones on this website have been used for moping and moaning a bit much. It sounds like incel central round here sometimes.