Seriously guys...

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You can do all kinds of great things for yourself to enhance the quality of your life - I'm completely with you there and something of an avid growth and self-improvement junky. At the same time though I've had to realize that what's happened in my own dating life has been too surreal to explained by anything that I'm doing and I would have to agree with those who'd perhaps not blame an attitude or set of habits but rather that men and women are different, we tend to gravitate toward those who we can relate to and what a lot of guys and girls have in common with Asperger's - we have outlying personalities that give most people headaches. Yes, a guy's virility and provider/protector status count but also, if you're way of thinking or general mode of life is too different at the core from the opposite sex or a certain type of emotional interaction that they love ends up being something you intellectualize to their chagrin, not because you're better or worse but just different from them, you have different needs, they have different needs, and I can easily believe that lots of people - AS or NT - can be very successful, be great people, have decent if not great social skills, and go nowhere in the relationship world. They're typically more autonomous people, people who also have high intelligence and lose about 9/10 people simply because they get bored with anything less than an equal there in most cases, and often enough they're great at asserting themselves or seeming like solid/upright people but seem even 7th grade awkard at showing interest (and funny enough that ineptitude doesn't come from not giving effort to attaining social skills, it comes from being on a different fundamental frame or POV, and ultimately it occasionally be faked around but inherent differences don't go away) - I've known the full gammit from Aspie guys and girls to some incredibly attractive NT's who simply had too big of identities, too rich an inner world, and when they looked for the type of person who could add to their life it simply wasn't available, thus they more often end up with a circle of very close friends for decades (as I have as well) and getting their fuel platonically.

I know that talking about the evolution game sounds like the conversation it more eugenic, I think there's that element but when you see that almost any kind of outlier is between a rock and hard place with relationships, you realize that - as an understanding of evolution would imply - its a non-thinking process that jettisons anything that isn't normative, at least psychologically.

^I actually thought that was pretty funny, even though I'm a pretty strident feminist. It's also a joke about how math can be used to 'prove' anything.

I thought this was an old thread. Toadofsteel hasn't posted in ages. I wonder what's happened to him. I used to like him.

Dial-up still exists? Fo real?

Nice necro. I saw both Face of Boo and Magnus Rex, so it threw me off for a bit. From the content of the OP, seems like L&D hasn't changed that much

yes, the fun thing about dating. Yeah, recently I've been looking at myself and trying to improve myself for the ladies. So Im not starting a conversation about adam sandler. really busting my ass off and really,really trying to do better but at the end of the day.
It all BS. Yeah, I comb my hair, I read how to talk to the ladies, do some sit ups and go out there and bust my ass to talk to some 20 year ladies who probaly already has a boyfriend or is a lesbian, or hates guys who look like me. I do all that stuff for the ladies but
yet women can stay the same, talking about worst stuff than I do, and just stand there looking at the floor and eating their hair and some hot, cool, rich guy will go up to them and ask them out and then finaly married them.
Look Im wwe fan, so some of you may understand my ranting. But the end of the day. The ducks are still awesome.

The "blame" might be yourself, or others. But it's better to just try to find out what's wrong and just fix without any blinders or pride in the way. Obviously some people manages it, the difference is the key.
I think body language is key and the realization that some people that look very attractive has a very bad behavior and should be avoided.

But just plainly blaming oneself is just self defeating.