How can you get a girlfriend if you have aspergers syndrome?

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19 May 2015, 1:30 pm

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I'm interested in meeting similar high functioning aspies.


I would probably fit into that category. I was invited to join Mensa based on my ACT score in high school. Did get a Ph.D at age 29 and work as a tenured professor.

I have been married for 15 years, to a great NT woman, but unlike you didn't have many relationships before hand. I have other attachment issues due to circumstances surrounding my biological mother, adoption, and childhood abuse. I am sure those things didn't help. I can see in retrospect that I had quite a few chances for relationships with some females in college, and maybe even in graduate school, but I had absolutely no idea how to get a relationship started. I didn't even realize that men have to make most of the first moves. Finally did get into one serious 18 month relationship when I was 29, that lasted for 18 months. Got married when I was 32. I still get ashamed at times over my lack of previous relationships, but at least I now know it was due to a disorder I have and not because I was ugly (which I ended up concluding for some time).

Today Aspies do benefit from access to the internet, which has no shortage of information on social skills, how to get into relationships, etc. The internet was just starting when I was in the unattached arena. I definitely would have benefited from the information it gave me plus the on-line dating sites. I did read one book on dating, and that was the extent of me trying to find out information on how to do it correctly.

I would likely of had a more similar experience without the aid of modern convenience of information. The relationships I spoke of ranged from brief and awful to 3 years and mostly ok but few ended well..



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19 May 2015, 2:17 pm

I wish I would have had the access to information that people do nowadays. I guess I did get lucky in that I never had a bad breakup with someone that involved lots of emotion, or yelling, or later resentment.



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19 May 2015, 8:34 pm

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Just be yourself and when the time is right things will happen.

That's not really true. I'm 36 and have been myself my whole life and I've never even dated anyone. It's getting to the point where it's going to be too late.


thats why it gets annoying whenever people say it is never too late :x



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19 May 2015, 9:15 pm

WantToHaveALife wrote:
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Just be yourself and when the time is right things will happen.

That's not really true. I'm 36 and have been myself my whole life and I've never even dated anyone. It's getting to the point where it's going to be too late.


thats why it gets annoying whenever people say it is never too late :x


they don't' want your sadless to effect their happy life. so they lie to get you to shut up and not kill yourself.
not because they actually believe what they are saying and who cares they already got their SO.



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19 May 2015, 9:22 pm

sly279 wrote:
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Just be yourself and when the time is right things will happen.

That's not really true. I'm 36 and have been myself my whole life and I've never even dated anyone. It's getting to the point where it's going to be too late.


thats why it gets annoying whenever people say it is never too late :x


they don't' want your sadless to effect their happy life. so they lie to get you to shut up and not kill yourself.
not because they actually believe what they are saying and who cares they already got their SO.


I remember a dating coach i was working with a year ago, when i told him my situation, he said to me that a couple of years ago, they knew and worked with a 42 year old man who had never had a girlfriend before, was a virgin, he had bad anxiety, he was from Vietnam, with serious heavy Coaching he finally got a girlfriend within a year, but damn, i had strong sympathy, empathy for him when they mentioned that about him. Sucks he had to miss all of his teens, 20's and 30's



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20 May 2015, 2:16 pm

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I have a routine which I refer to as my social programming. For a limited amount of time I seem to be able to convince people that I am your every day 100% normal guy who can lay on the charm. When I first met my fiancee I fell into my programming and we talked, I laughed at jokes I didn't understand, proceeded to lay on some charm I hard learned from trial and error and bought £10 worth of raffle tickets in support of a bear sanctuary that she was selling. Boom, Facebook friend request followed by messages which I spent longer than I care to admit editing to make sure they came across as 'normal' then onto dates which were always tailored to involve activities so the focus wasn't always on conversation. From there it was a slow process of introducing her to my 'quirks' and giving her time to accept them one by one.

I do not advise this. My partner has often said that I was "so different" in the beginning and it stirs up guilt that I pretty much lied to her about who I am and tricked her into being with someone completely different to what she originally saw. Concentrate on being yourself, develop your own interests and then go somewhere where you can openly share these interests, there will be people there you can share these interests with and it'll be easier to get to know them and bond with them.

I am told a good haircut and an ironed shirt also helps but I have never attempted to apply this to myself.

You sound EXACTLY like me and I had same end result with my wife.



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21 May 2015, 7:25 pm

I remember an Australian Dating Coach/Guru named Dan Bacon, who runs a rite/blog called "The Modern Man", he says he knows of more than 350 guys who are still a virgin at 30+ years of age, as in 30 and older.



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22 May 2015, 1:31 am

I "waited" until age 27 for "RL" sex. Just didn't bother to pursue any girls into seduction until that time since I was "saving myself" for "the right one" which apparently didn't exist, and man, that was a depressing experience, because it seemed like all of the girls always ended up with someone else, therefore, I decided to give up on "saving myself" for the "special person" who didn't exist anyway, and ended up seducing someone's wife instead & lost my virginity to her (a hot-looking red-headed or was it reddish-brown or auburn-haired woman who looked like she was still 19 despite being in her 30s although she didn't really have any meat left in her breasts was the only real down-side). Had sex with her every day for a week until our phones got lost... I would have sex with her again every day if we meet again, and I would have her cos-play as all of the hottest long-haired video-game & animé-characters in existence, and make lots of pr0nz videos with her ! ^_^

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I remember an Australian Dating Coach/Guru named Dan Bacon, who runs a rite/blog called "The Modern Man", he says he knows of more than 350 guys who are still a virgin at 30+ years of age, as in 30 and older.

I know I got bunches of other things I could & want to say but anyway, yeah, I met her at a social-function (a church of all places because I went their during their "free food" thing that they did on Wednesdays), the story was that a "friend" of hers raped her, and she was all looking for someone she could trust or something, and somehow I managed to give her comfort, putting my arms around her, telling her that everything will be fine since I can protect her (because my kung fu was bad-ass at the time), and basically acting all like her boyfriend from the get-go (THAT is the "secret" you guys, for getting a girl-friend, just decide that she's your girl-friend & ACT like her boy-friend from the beginning, even if she "says" that she has a boy-friend, she WILL dump him & stick with you if you proceed to make your "advances" upon her anyway, provided that she's not resisting your advances [and by "advances" I mean you're like actually putting your hands & stuff on her body & maybe even going so far as to give her a full-body massage], and feels like you're willing to keep her for the long-term & aren't just being used by you for some kind of one-night stand).

P.S.: It's EASIER to get a girl-friend who has had boy-friends than it is to get a girl-friend who's never had one before. Well, that might depend on age, but statistically speaking, I have found this to be statistically true from personal-experience.


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22 Apr 2016, 6:52 pm

I met a not so attractive girl then I turned her into a super model with my Asperger super intelligent brain. Now she is forever in love with me & can't live without me.Image



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24 Apr 2016, 6:09 pm

^^ looking good!


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24 Apr 2016, 11:33 pm

How'd you turn her into a model? Giving her makeup or stuff?
If not then she was always attractive.



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25 Apr 2016, 2:07 am

Ban-Dodger wrote:
P.S.: It's EASIER to get a girl-friend who has had boy-friends than it is to get a girl-friend who's never had one before. Well, that might depend on age, but statistically speaking, I have found this to be statistically true from personal-experience.


Probably true, but the one that never had a bf before could be a lot more interesting. It could be viewed in another way too: Girls that had a lot of boyfriends are likely to be players and unable to form stable, long-term relationships.



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25 Apr 2016, 7:05 am

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I met my BF and what caught my interest in himw as his kindness and properness. He did make himself noticable though with his extreme opinions, which is what made me look his way in the first place.


I have no idea what your BF's personality is like but how do you stand his "uniqueness" that comes with aspergers? Isn't he socially awkward to some degree? Isn't socializing hard for him in any way?

Basically what I'm saying is wouldn't an average woman be almost ashamed of having a relationship with a person with aspergers since normal people lives are dominated by social activities and those who don't socialize are ostracized as loners or freaks?


An average woman might be ashamed of having a relationship with a person with aspergers...hell they would be ashamed having a relationship with a fellow neurotypical if they feared that neurotypical was too different or didn't fit in great with your average people. But who cares not every woman is an average woman, look to find fellow loners and freaks.


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25 Apr 2016, 7:27 am

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I met a not so attractive girl then I turned her into a super model with my Asperger super intelligent brain


Wh.....what?

Truth to be told, she does look attractive (teen-wise) but certainly not due to your super intelligent brain.



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25 Apr 2016, 7:36 am

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just decide that she's your girl-friend & ACT like her boy-friend from the beginning, even if she "says" that she has a boy-friend, she WILL dump him & stick with you if you proceed to make your "advances" upon her anyway, provided that she's not resisting your advances [and by "advances" I mean you're like actually putting your hands & stuff on her body & maybe even going so far as to give her a full-body massage], and feels like you're willing to keep her for the long-term & aren't just being used by you for some kind of one-night stand).


That probably only works if they are unhappy with their boyfriend, or unhappy being single and happen to like you but if they're in a good relationship with their boyfriend, than you might just make them angry if you go with that plan.


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27 Jul 2016, 10:17 pm

I found out I am an Aspie almost three months ago.

I have never had a date with a woman.

I have a job, live alone in a nice house and am considered a 'high functioning' Aspie.

How would anyone suggest I get started in meeting women?

I welcome any advice from men and women, especially those who have had some success in this area.