Do women simply just dislike Aspie men?

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I suppose.....but I still don’t feel the situation is hopeless for “odd” people.

The evolution of this thread has totally baffled me, this is partly because not being an aspie obviously my thought processing and experience of life is totally different. It suddenly dawned on me what is lacking in these threads.

There are lengthy lamentations regarding demographics and statistics and you all have entangled me in that mindset, so I started thinking which professional women would be compatible with aspies, how you would meet good women but then I realised what was lacking.

Finding a woman, where, how, what nationality is really not the issue.
The common denominator that the married aspies or those in a long term relationship share here, K, Bender, Kraftie, Fnord, you know who they all are, they all have the capacity to project their caring on to others, relate to others lives, express empathy in their own way, overcome difficulties and maintain a long term intimate relationship.

A long term relationship is similar to a career, it's easy enough to begin but sustaining it is the hard part.
Finding the right woman is not like an acquisition, it's not like buying a new computer, finding the right price, design and performance. You order it, bring it home, mission accomplished. Noooooo. A woman wants and needs many things beyond the material aspects of life. So much more.

I am guessing Fnord and Bender and all the guys that have been encouraging the younger guys here for years have said it in every possible way.

I wanted to be a nurse when I was a girl. That was my objective. That was not enough. . That is just a desire . Next I had to convert my desire into a practical strategy. So I went to nursing school, studied anatomy and physiology, all the necessary stuff I am really bad at understanding, I actually hate science because my mind is so disorganised and I have a severe learning disability, but I invested 4 years to achieve my goal. I had to force myself to internalize all these strategies and analyses that my mind refused to understand and process efficiently. A bit like aspies and emotional communication perhaps?

Wanting a relationship will not bring you nearer to having a successful one, it's just a desire, it requires implementing a plan of action in order to fulfill this desire.

Maintaining a relationship requires the ability to feel that another human being is as important as yourself, to think outside yourself make them feel appreciated and valued, learn how to listen and understand them, learn how to adapt to sharing your time and your space. If you begin to do this then your whole experience of human interaction will change, women will sense that you are emotionally present and be able to connect with you. They will find substance to connect to emotionally. Try and develop expressing the care that you feel so deeply internally into an external verbal expression of feeling, even if it is just memorizing phrases that suit the moment. Learn to ask questions if you have no idea how to interpret what your partner is feeling so that they can sense you care. Learn to verbalize your feelings more.

This all demands a great investment of time, effort and determination to achieve your goal but it will assist you in every interpersonal interaction. Nothing suddenly materializes just because we want it, learn how to make the emotional connection in your own unique way, if you can.

I promise to let this go now and keep my perhaps misguided advice to myself.