emlion wrote:
ToadOfSteel wrote:
Moog wrote:
You really are going to have to find some esteem that derives from something other than your paypacket, anyway. How sh** must it be to have a woman around who you believe is only with you because you earn x thousands of dollars.
Well, then, you tell me: why would a woman want to be with me? What do I really have to offer in a relationship other than the ability to fix computers, and a basic set of housekeeping skills?
Same thing you want her for? Companionship, love, warmth, someone to share the day with? Who wants any more than that, really?
You'd offer her all those things, right?
Well, some of us aspie guys may prefer to spend the day alone, except for sex. At least we might like companionship if it is with exactly the right type of person, but we would be interested in sex with a far larger fraction of women than we'd actually like to spend significant time with. Again, I don't mean to speak for all guys on the spectrum here.
Also, a little about the "love" and "warmth" bit--as I have mentioned before on this board, I have come to realize that for my whole life up to now, I have considered love and warmth as mainly things that I "buy" from the world for being talented, brilliant, good-natured, etc. Or rather, I have always known that I do this, but I have only recently started to think about the fact that not everyone does this.
I often feel that I can only easily feel "heat" (e.g., passion, motivation, drive, etc.) and ego-fulfillment, but rarely warmth. At least, my ability to feel warmth is very fragile and only appears when I am feeling really good about both myself and life in general. So I largely look to the world to reflect my passion back as warmth.
In the latest "women have it harder" thread, someone said that autistic women tend to have emotional issues while the men don't. I'm considering the possibility that this happens because men can more easily rely on their ability to impress others and to be successful to compensate for their emotional deficits--so that what would be called an obvious problem in a woman may not even be noticed when a man has the same thing. If a man has depression, bipolar, even maybe mild psychopathy, he can just choose a life path where his need to show warmth isn't important, whereas I wonder to what extent such paths exist for women.