obsessive compulsive tendencies effects on dating.

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It's already been said several times, but the odds are truly stacked against you having a high IQ and AS, looking for someone else that has both. I burn out very quickly on people. Some days I will take my fiancee out shopping, out to dinner, and curl up and watch TV all evening. The very next day I will stay barricaded in my room, seriously contemplating taking the last 4 1/2 years and saying "F*** it, I'm done." Either you hold out for that one in a million chance and be lonely, or settle for someone that will never really get you. And both options suck.

Weird.

Very weird.

I don't think I'd get diagnosed unless I wanted to- but I think I could get diagnosed, if I wanted to, without any deception at all.

And. . . well. .. I just know so many autistic spectrum people. About half my family. . . maybe more, and the rest are very aspie-like NTs. . . and the last five or so guys I've been interested in/ dated, for a start.

And it's not like I've been looking. . .

On the one hand, it is a difficult problem. Just last night I was talking to an NT friend who'se husband is either AS or just has a lot in common with it. . . it was strange for me to realize, she was just never going to understand why a house out in the woods is so very appealing to him, or to me- never going to understand the stress it causes us to be around most people, or the calm that comes from that distance.

On the other hand. . . there are a lot more people out there who share some traits. No other person will ever understand you completely; this would be true even if you were NT. People who get diagnosed, or who could get diagnosed, are generally those who've had the most trouble adapting; I think there are a lot of people out there who have the same traits with less severity.

In the end, it's for each of us to decide if we want to keep pushing ourselves, to learn to communicate, to force ourselves to have social lives until we find those people who do get the bits of us that we long to have recognized.

Do you alternate between extremes of liking and disliking, or just get bored with people?

The infatuation stage is actually stressful and difficult for me. I want to get to the loving couple stage, and stay there.

I know I do have very compulsive behavioral patterns, ecspecially with certain foods and routines. I like things to be perfect or how "I" think they need to be. I feel that this affects relationships too. I don't know if I'm getting bored with them, or just smothered. Having low social needs and not being able to empathize well with others emotionally tinted veiws or understanding them fully. It can make for such a lonely life at times. But most of the time I prefere the l peace of the solitude campared to the chaos of close ecsp. "live in" type relationships. The perfect situation may would be where we lived apart and just visit ea other once a week or so. Good luck finding anyone to agree to that though!!lol hahaha

Nope. You're just like every other woman on planet earth. Now whats the "hahahaha" BS for, eh?
BTW lotus_sprout, in 20 years, just about No One male will want to even get in bed with you for a one night stand cos you'll pretty much be an infertile hag. Im so glad women dont age well and dont get to reproduce past their 40s; maybe being male isnt such a bad deal afterall.

Yeah, it's easy to see why a person would prefere to live alone. Who wants to deal stuff like that?? Damn this reminds me why Im not more social, tnx

BTW After being married for 8 years and having two kids, I certainly don't need to be fertile or anything anyways.

Seriously, whats the "hahahahaha" for?
Arent you glad that nature gave men superior physical strength? bahahahaha