Catastrophic thinking
A couple of weeks ago I was predicting that my ex partner was going to dump me for absolutely no reason, and that she was going to do so in a very abrupt and toxic manner.
I was so sure she was going to do that, that the night before the break up I messaged my friend and told her my suspicion that my ex was going to dump me for no reason, and that she was gonna look for a lame excuse to do so.
I told my friend that I was tired of dating mentally unstable people, as that i’m always being mistreated because of their mental illnesses.
So far all of my partners that I have dated had mental health issues and while I have mental health issues as well I keep mine under control. While in their cases they would lash out at me dumped me for no reason and treat me absolutely horribly.
I was so sure that my ex was going to do that that I rode a message to my friend as I wanted to show them that whenever I make catastrophic predictions I’m always right when it comes to dating.
The very next morning my girlfriend called me and texted me saying that we were over and she use the false accusation for the reason of her break up.
I told her that she needed to find a better excuse and to rub it in her face that I was already expecting the break up, I showed her the screenshot in which I wrote to my friend expecting to be dumped.
I then found that after I showed her the screenshot she immediately blocked me.
The message was sent at 10 PM at night while her jumping me was at 10 AM in the morning.
Why do you think she Block me when I called her out for her false accusation and showed her that I was in fact expecting her to dump me?
Also, they did not know each other.
I'm sorry to hear this. I hope you find someone less prone to abrupt breakups.
Do you have a specific methodology for keeping yours under control? Have you made a specific point of seeking potential partners who share your commitment to keeping mental health issues under control as much as possible?
Perhaps sharing such a methodology, and working through it together with someone, might be an excellent source of emotional intimacy/bonding with someone, in and of itself?
Blocking people on social media, for any reason or for no reason, seems to be downright faddish these days. Here is an article defending the practice and here is an article criticizing it.
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In my universe, this doesn't necessarily follow at all. My past relationships have tended to fade out rather than end abruptly, and I've tended to remain on friendly terms with exes.
I'm not sure whether this is still the case, but, when I was younger at least, it was extremely commonplace for lesbians and bisexual women to not only remain on friendly terms with exes, but to regard them as part of one's alternative extended family.
Personally, I'm inclined to regard abrupt and total breakoffs as pathological behavior (except in cases where it's truly necessary, e.g. to get away from a violently abusive partner).
I am aware that there are lots of people, apparently including you, who regard abrupt and total breakoffs as the perfectly normal, expected way to break up with someone. I am not one of those people.
IMO, this is one of the many philosophical issues people should discuss with each other before they form a close relationship, in the first place.
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Thank all you so much for all the advice.
I really hope that my next partner will be a decent person. I’m not asking for much, since that my next partner doesn’t take advantage of me, or scapegoat me for their issues, as in the last couple relationships I’ve been in I was taken advantage of and made into a scapegoat.
Sending a screenshot of a text to a friend to a person that just dumped me predicting the breakup would sound pretty off putting to me personally. I wouldn't know what to do with that. However, she falsely accused of something. Is there some background I am missing from another thread?
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In my universe, this doesn't necessarily follow at all. My past relationships have tended to fade out rather than end abruptly, and I've tended to remain on friendly terms with exes.
I'm not sure whether this is still the case, but, when I was younger at least, it was extremely commonplace for lesbians and bisexual women to not only remain on friendly terms with exes, but to regard them as part of one's alternative extended family.
Personally, I'm inclined to regard abrupt and total breakoffs as pathological behavior (except in cases where it's truly necessary, e.g. to get away from a violently abusive partner).
I am aware that there are lots of people, apparently including you, who regard abrupt and total breakoffs as the perfectly normal, expected way to break up with someone. I am not one of those people.
IMO, this is one of the many philosophical issues people should discuss with each other before they form a close relationship, in the first place.
It *is* pathological (unless the partner is abusive as you said); giving a closure reason is the least thing a decent person would do.
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I was so sure she was going to do that, that the night before the break up I messaged my friend and told her my suspicion that my ex was going to dump me for no reason, and that she was gonna look for a lame excuse to do so.
I told my friend that I was tired of dating mentally unstable people, as that i’m always being mistreated because of their mental illnesses.
So far all of my partners that I have dated had mental health issues and while I have mental health issues as well I keep mine under control. While in their cases they would lash out at me dumped me for no reason and treat me absolutely horribly.
I was so sure that my ex was going to do that that I rode a message to my friend as I wanted to show them that whenever I make catastrophic predictions I’m always right when it comes to dating.
The very next morning my girlfriend called me and texted me saying that we were over and she use the false accusation for the reason of her break up.
I told her that she needed to find a better excuse and to rub it in her face that I was already expecting the break up, I showed her the screenshot in which I wrote to my friend expecting to be dumped.
I then found that after I showed her the screenshot she immediately blocked me.
The message was sent at 10 PM at night while her jumping me was at 10 AM in the morning.
Why do you think she Block me when I called her out for her false accusation and showed her that I was in fact expecting her to dump me?
Also, they did not know each other.
The fact that you predicted that accurately it means most likely something happened the day (or few days) before the breakup; like a big fight or something.
This is also not the first instance in which a catastrophic prediction of mine came true.
Earlier last year I was introduced to a girl through mutual friend of mine. She explained her situation and how she is currently between jobs and how she had a very nasty break up with her ex fiancé who was a very bad person.
During the dinner I was very compassionate and kind towards her and she ask me out and we started dating.
However something happened that forced me to move to another state for a few months, as I was losing my apartment and I needed a cheaper place to live for the time being.
Anyway about when I moved to Iowa she started asking me for money.
Almost immediately I went onto Facebook messenger and messaged and autism dating chat group that I’m a part of and I told him the suspicion that the girl is only pretending to have feelings for me so she could take a vantage of me. Keep in mind I said that only the first time after she asked me for money.
I told him that she’s probably going to keep up the charade and continue to ask me for money but I did mention her situation to them.
They told me just tell her that you don’t have any money and if she really has feelings for you and likes you she would not hold it over you.
I told them if I do that she would tell me that she found someone else who is really rich.
I made this prediction in early September 2022.
By October 2022 a few times when she asked me for money I told her that I didn’t have any as an experiment and I even showed her a screenshot of one of my bank accounts that had barely a dollar in as proof, as I did not want her to think that I was refusing to give her money.
But occasionally she pulled my heartstrings to the point that I acquiesced and gave her the money.
But by the middle of October she informed me that she went on a dinner date with this amazingly rich guy, and how he’s so rich and kind and that she fell in love with him.
I did not bring it up to her that I expected her to do this but I instead told her that I was very happy for her.
I then went to the messenger group scrolled up to where I need the prediction of September and replied to myself with the screenshot from where she told me that she went on this date with this millionaire with the words “As usual I’m always right about people.”
I eventually had enough with her and I dumped her, and told her to go feed on some other sucker, and that I regret ever meeting her. And that was that.
I told her that she is an entitled gold-digger and that I have zero respect for people like her.
And a few months after I dumped her for her emotional manipulation/abuse gold digging, I met my present ex, the one I predicted would dump me the day before she did.
Two catastrophic predictions I made came true verbatim. Why are my catastrophic predictions based on the what I expect others to do so accurate? Is this level of intuition normal among empaths/aspies?
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