unrequited love scenarios

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I loved her. She didn't love me. End of story.

There was this one time in my teens where person I hung out with told this girl that I liked her. (she was the sister of another person I hung out with) She just laughed in my face, it was like she thought "there's no way I would ever go out with this bum, I can't believe he thought he had a chance"

Stupid b***h.

Unrequited love sucks at any age, under any circumstance, whether you're an Aspie or an NT. The reason I found this website was to understand my (now ex) boyfriend. Through lots of reading and research, we were able to determine just a few weeks ago that he has Asperger's Syndrome. I joined this forum so that I could understand and "love him better." As of last night, I have now joined the ranks of women he's enjoyed for a few months, became bored with, then moved on in search of that initial excitement he gets in a new romance. I tell myself that it's not personal, that it's part of his Aspie-ness, but it still cuts like a knife to my heart to be rejected by him. I so desperately wanted to be "the one" that he could actually love and want to be with forever. Silly me...

A simpler name for an unrequited love scenario is a "oneitis" - as you know, Adam. It's an especially apt word for Aspies, having their special interests. The special interest could be on a person who's a romantic interest, one person hence the person's a "oneitis", but an unattainable person for whatever reason - e.g. already having a partner, or they're a celebrity. Thus, nick007's special interest in Miranda Cosgrove counted as a oneitis. I have had oneitises in the past. They were very distracting. I have worked on disciplining myself over the past few years to mentally guard myself against oneitis formation, by frank assessment of how attainable a girl is combined with frank assessment my own potential mating value. This disciplining has been quite effective for me, but I used to get oneitises in customer service situations such as with supermarket staff, as they were the main place where any girls were friendly towards me and I had positive interaction with them, hell they were paid to do so! In fact, realising they were paid to do so assuaged much of my whole oneitis problem.