dorkseid wrote:
I'm a TA, not a teacher. It pays terribly. I'm pretty much living off of my financial aid. Btw, I'm over $150K in student loan debt at this point. My options have always been no prospects of any kind of viable career, or going into so much debt to acquire one that any money I made would just go immediately into paying that debt.
@DW: I've been hearing all about how I make a great catch "in theory" pretty much my entire life. Despite that, no woman who wasn't looking for someone easy to manipulate has ever actually wanted to date me.
I am not going to use the term "great catch." I am saying you have positive qualities that could make you the right partner for quite a few women. Focus on the positive qualities, not the negative ones. Different people have different needs in a partner.
I think for most of us the percentage of the population that needs our positive qualities while being able to deal with our negative ones is going to be pretty small. But the further you broadcast, the more you increase the odds of connecting to the right person.
All any of us need is one right person. The difficulty is finding them.
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Mom to an amazing young adult AS son, plus an also amazing non-AS daughter. Most likely part of the "Broader Autism Phenotype" (some traits).