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01 Feb 2024, 5:00 am

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Not all autistic women are the same obviously, I think the more skilled ones are probably not picked for the show though.

Some are "skilled" but have probably had bad experiences. Perhaps there's some hope things will work out better for them on the show.


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01 Feb 2024, 6:31 am

MaxE wrote:
Nades wrote:
Not all autistic women are the same obviously, I think the more skilled ones are probably not picked for the show though.

Some are "skilled" but have probably had bad experiences. Perhaps there's some hope things will work out better for them on the show.


I can't help but feel the show picks them with the intention of everything failing.



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01 Feb 2024, 7:41 am

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I've had interactions with socially skilled extroverts and inexperienced introverts and past a certain age (I'm 33) I wonder why they haven't gained more people skills in all that time in comparison to the extroverts.
It could be because they’re autistic.

We are all different. We don’t all have the same capacity when it comes to social ability, just like we don’t all have the same intellectual or emotional capacity.

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with lacking so-called “people skills.” I find awkwardness endearing, but obviously, not everyone feels the same.



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01 Feb 2024, 8:23 am

TwilightPrincess wrote:
Nades wrote:
I've had interactions with socially skilled extroverts and inexperienced introverts and past a certain age (I'm 33) I wonder why they haven't gained more people skills in all that time in comparison to the extroverts.
It could be because they’re autistic.

We are all different. We don’t all have the same capacity when it comes to social ability, just like we don’t all have the same intellectual or emotional capacity.

I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with supposedly lacking “people skills.” I find awkwardness endearing, but obviously, not everyone feels the same.


I think being awkward can be cute to an extent. If it's mild then it can be endearing but if it's severe, especially at an older age then it's probably deeply entrenched and better to deal with it before jumping on the dating market.



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01 Feb 2024, 8:26 am

I have a different take. People can’t always change stuff like that about themselves, especially if it’s “deeply entrenched,” whether it’s through nature, nurture, or a combination of the two nor do they always want to change. There’s nothing wrong with that. If some don’t like it, they don’t need to date them. It doesn’t mean that other people wouldn’t want to. There are lots of fish in the sea.



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08 Feb 2024, 9:54 am

I watched several episodes on Netflix a few years back when they started in Australia. To be honest, I didn't like that show because I felt like they were treating those individuals like guinea pigs. I also felt like they focused too much on the individual's autism and made it sound like they had limited interests.

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Tonight A is meeting B. B likes trains, plains, and automobiles and hates water, coffee, and the sound of wind blowing through the trees.

I also feel like these are all blind dates who are paired up with other people on the spectrum.



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08 Feb 2024, 11:33 am

Summer_Twilight wrote:
I watched several episodes on Netflix a few years back when they started in Australia. To be honest, I didn't like that show because I felt like they were treating those individuals like guinea pigs. I also felt like they focused too much on the individual's autism and made it sound like they had limited interests.

E.G.
Tonight A is meeting B. B likes trains, plains, and automobiles and hates water, coffee, and the sound of wind blowing through the trees.

I also feel like these are all blind dates who are paired up with other people on the spectrum.


I think part where they talk about the liking things is like other dating shows. Old dating shows setting up people would introduce people kinda like that. "Mr. Soandso likes long walks on the beach, walking his dogs, and movie nights".

The people are paired by the show, yes.

And basically all dating shows treat the people like guinea pigs. They almost always feel very strange to watch for me because a lot of the interactions could be faked by the people participating because of their awareness of the camera, the show producers could be influencing the interactions, or the people editing the videos could cut out certain parts and move things around to make it look like something did or didn't happen and change the tone of a recorded situation.
It is all so strange.



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30 Apr 2024, 7:54 am

Netflix Green-Lights More Episodes Of Autism Dating Show

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Netflix said this month that it will renew “Love on the Spectrum U.S.” for a third season.

The renewal comes after the show’s second season was ranked in the streaming service’s top 10 globally for three weeks.

“Love on the Spectrum U.S.” debuted in 2022 as a spinoff of an Australian version of the show that aired two seasons on Netflix.

The series won three Emmy awards in 2022, one for outstanding unstructured reality program as well as awards for outstanding picture editing for an unstructured reality program and outstanding casting for a reality program.

Netflix did not say when the third season is expected to be released or how many episodes it will include.


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30 Apr 2024, 11:39 pm

thinking about Steve Spitz causes me to have mixed emotions, due to certain information i heard disclosed about him



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01 May 2024, 7:28 am

WantToHaveALife wrote:
thinking about Steve Spitz causes me to have mixed emotions, due to certain information i heard disclosed about him

Care to elaborate? :o



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02 May 2024, 4:48 am

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WantToHaveALife wrote:
thinking about Steve Spitz causes me to have mixed emotions, due to certain information i heard disclosed about him

Care to elaborate? :o


it was disclosed that he has never had a girlfriend before, always been single, and he is in his 60s, when i heard that, the emotions that went through my mind are sadness and depression, and anger and resentment.



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02 May 2024, 6:12 am

Steve may be on the ace spectrum. He doesn't seem that desperate for female companionship.


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02 May 2024, 8:48 pm

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Steve may be on the ace spectrum. He doesn't seem that desperate for female companionship.


i see, well if it doesn't cause him any emotional or mental pain, torture, then more power to him then, another thing, i've heard some people say, there were plenty of women he could have dated in his younger years but he pushed them away, turned them down.