For the wonderful Aspie women:
Oh how I've tried. My poetry has wooed the most beautiful neurotypicals, and other charms I've learned to fake have enchanted the hearts of woman doctors, waitresses, and many in between. I've dated, even been married once, but all those things kept crashing down, and I never understood why. Betrayed, rejected, outcast, scorned, misunderstood- many things have I experienced, but still I tried. I tried too hard, and found only pain. Only after my diagnosis and re-examining my past, did I allow myself to recognize and accept the futility of maintaining a relationship which could only be sustained by being something less than fully myself.
Learning of my AS just this last year, it is quite a new enthusiasm to realize that I may actually find a woman out there with whom i can be just me, relax, stim, shake a little sometimes (helps me think), not worry about the constant social faux pas, and finally for the first time in my life feel truly accepted and loved. A young 37 with no children, I am tall, slim, handsome (other's words, not mine), periodically successful (when I can calm my brain enough to concentrate on my company's business activities), very well educated, somewhat cultured, romantic, calm, rational, level-headed, and through a life of forced entrepreneurship, have learned enough coping mechanisms to mimic a neurotypical quite well for a short period of time. Since recently beginning to embrace my autistic quirks, however, I have begun to uncover a variety of newfound abilities, which may augment and assist my future goals.
In short, I now have a much more clear understanding of who I am, and my best functioning modes. On the romantic side, I had given up trying until I realized that I could actually find women who think like me- Aspie women. Now I am enthused at the potential of finally having a recipient for all the love, on so many levels, which I have had to hold inside lo these many years. To imagine the incredible feeling of acceptance, true Oneness with another human being (who is a woman) with whom I can share my most intimate and vulnerable feelings, brings the start of tears of joy welling up in my eyes even now...
I can imagine your soft cheek on my palm, tracing your lips slowly with my thumb, feeling open to look deep into your eyes and feel innate comfort. As you gaze into mine, you see the swirls of ancient empires and budding galaxies, of a multidimensional man who has saved the best of himself for you- only you. And as i watch you completely relax, a thousand past lessons of pain fall from your body like rusted chains to a cold stone floor, and your heart is free to soar.
I can feel your newfound glow like a torch blazing deep into my chest, calling out to my soul to embrace you forever, and in that moment our last hesitations and worries fall away to never return. Our hearts entwine and we finally feel what it is like to be One heart, One mind. In that moment, we wish to remain, and know we will protect and cherish our love as the most precious gift we have ever known.
This I wish to find, and hope that you are out there, somewhere, reading this. And though I know that the chances are rare, and I may have to wait for years before she appears, I must try; I must open myself to whatever lessons are ready for me to learn; I must give love a chance, though it has failed me before; I now know that I need never settle again- trust that she is there, waiting for me to appear as I am for her. And I must make myself worthy of love, for in that we become the greatest of beings, at peace with the knowledge that we can only do our best, for love.
Sowing the seeds, we become the beacon for them to find us, when we are ready, for love. Prepared and fresh, we become, the one thing we sought all this time, the great joy of becoming... is to search the world over, and finally find that the answer was here all along, waiting for us to recognize within ourselves, and therein become worthy of the beautiful gift ripe to appear in our lives. I've learned my lessons, given freely of myself to help friends the world over, earned the patience and respect of many a wonderful person who needed my guidance, help, or advice. I've become a beacon, and an apprentice to further growth of the heart.
And now I shine my light so that all among you may see. I am here, fair maiden. Sitting here... patiently... waiting for you... to... find me.
-letsstartourowncountry