BPalmer wrote:
makuranososhi wrote:
you continually post as though your own experiences are all that exist
Not true. Am I saying that KenM's, or Cyberman's, or LonerMutant's don't exist, for instance? Hardly. I've read on this very forum what a lot of Aspie males have to go through.
makuranososhi wrote:
When did their age come into the conversation?
Let's face it, there's a world of difference between being 21 and 35! When I was younger, I thought things would improve, and hoped I'd only have to wait
a few years later than most for a first relationship. At the same time I feared I'd become one of those losers who don't have their fist date until they're well into their thirties, forties or beyond. Well, that fear has been proven to be completely well-founded. I'm supposed to be meeting up with someone really soon, but I can't see how there can be a skerrick of fun and innocence to the whole thing, and suspect it'll quickly degenerate into arguing and bickering.
I kept thinking things would get better in a few years too, but they never did. I faced alot of challenges in this area. Some people start dating in high school. My parents didn't believe in teen age dating, so I was pretty much locked out of that. I might have been able to convince them to relax that when I was a senior in high school, but the way my high school was, I was locked out of the dating pool the day I walked in the door because of the clannishness of the place. Everyone there had either gone the same churches together, went to the same elementary schools together, or both. Since I had done neither, I was seen as an outsider the day I walked in the door. I would have had to find someone from another school to date and if I did and my fellow students found out, I was afraid if I did find someone, they'd torment her as well.
In college, it didn't work either because I didn't like to do the things college students my age did, like club and bar hopping, partying in general, going to football games, concerts, I basically didn't like activities where everyone acts crazy. In addition, I had my sister digging in my business all the time, and her and our parents ganging up on me to force me to socialize her way. Even if I could have found a girlfriend, I'd have had to keep her away from my sister because every time I made a friend, if she got near them, she'd manipulate them into being her friend and to push me off to the side. I learned to either have few friends or keep them away from her when I could.
Where I lived after graduating, the culture was all drinking, partying, etc., so again, I couldn't find anyone I really wanted to go out with, so I was again locked out. I could have possibly tried to fake me way into that culture, but it just wasn't me. I decided not dating or having much of a social life was the price I had to pay for just being myself. I refused to forget who I am, and still do.
At 28, I ended up meeting someone online who lived in another state. We wrote back and forth for a year and a half then decided to finally meet. 4 years after that we got married and it's been a great 7 years. It hasn't been easy, but it has worked out.
What I'm saying is there is hope for us all.
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