AS dating a NT - is it morally right?

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OK. Right.

From:
https://www.verywell.com/is-it-asperger-syndrome-259942


Aspergers (or, now, "Level 1 Autism") usually include:

difficulty with social and communication skills (the ability to "read" body language, understand sarcasm, etc.),
sensitivity to loud noise, bright lights, and other sensory input
difficulty with changes in routines
desire to talk and think about only a few topics of special interest
challenges with empathy (imagining what other people are thinking or feeling)

I'd like to honestly ask the two of you exactly what YOU think autism is then. If there is no problem with empathy, what does it mean? Why is it so difficult for people who have autism? Why do asperger's individuals have a hard time in relationships? Is that because of difficulty with social skills? Where does that come from? Why, then, is it such a pervasive problem that asperger's individuals seem to push people who care about them away? That has come up on this forum a zillion times, both with NTs trying to figure out what to do to fix it, and by AS trying to understand why they have challenges with friends or women. Why is that?

Kthxbai, I'm done being tarred by such broad brushes.

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I personally think you're bitter and angry. And I also noticed that not one person tried to actually read what I wrote about asking the difference between being cold and just coming off as cold. I think it hit too close to home and some of you don't want to admit to yourselves that people do see some of your behaviors as cold and you don't like that. You call it "differences" though. Differences is irrelevant. I just asked for clarification and tried to open a discussion. Don't participate in it if you don't want to. I for one, want to understand. But if it is pointless, then No, to the OP, it is NOT morally right to have an aspie/NT relationship. The Aspie will destroy the NT. Look how "cold" they are. Oh, maybe they just came off as cold. My bad.

You really can't determine other people's reading comprehension through a screen.

Feeling pretty frigid today alright.

I wonder why.

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"Standing on a well-chilled cinder, we see the fading of the suns, and try to recall the vanished brilliance of the origin of the worlds."
-Georges Lemaitre
"I fly through hyperspace, in my green computer interface"
-Gem Tos

It's ridiculous. Everything I said was nothing more than a description of what I experienced on the other side of a person with Asperger's. I observed, I saw how he was behaving, that behavior was very far outside of normal or average behavior and it made no sense. I know it is due to his Asperger's.

I still don't understand the difference between being cold and coming off as cold. I think my description of the situation with my aspie friend is a pretty strong one. If any of you experienced anything like that, what is the difference? He behaved cold. No two ways about it, that was cold. But what was in his head? I'll never know because he can't/won't talk about what's in his head. If you can't help to explain or give a perspective on that, then don't respond.

That's crazy. You really are bitter and angry at the world.

So many have often said that people with asperger's come off as cold, they don't mean it though, etc. Here is someone trying to understand that. There WAS cold behavior on the part of someone who is aspie. Many cold things. So if the person is not actually cold, which I do not believe anyone is implicitly naturally cold, then I'd like for someone to simply explain the internals of how that is working on the inside then, and what is the difference between being cold and behaving as such. What was really going on if we are not going to say the person themselves is cold, which I do not believe to be the case? Why behave so badly towards someone who is close to you? And why did this only start to happen after that closeness came to be but not before? That's come up so many times too. What is behind that? I can read clinical information all day. That means nothing. I would rather hear from the autistic perspective what might go on in someone's head who behaved before in a similar fashion and who maybe was perceived as cold. What is wrong with that?