please stop these "any girls out there" threads
anyone else really depressed by those pessimistic, hopeless sounding thread "any aspie girls in texas..." "any aspie singles out there wanna hook up".."im just posting this to see if there is a single aspie chick out there..."
Why the heck would any woman want to reply, to some guy who just wants "anyone convenient" and knows nothing about them as a person.
Heres my idea -
look around the forum to find people (male and female) who share your interests, be it politics, rock music, science.
Then, chat to them for a while, untill you find a couple that you really "click" with, same sense of humor, same outlook on life, easy to chat to. Send them PMs telling them you like their posts and would like to be friends with them. Then get to know them better over email, pm, phone msn or whatever.
If you make as many friends as you can this way, IMO you are far more likely to meet a partner on here.
And (as has been proved by couples here) if they're the right one they'll travel any distance to meet you, as opposed to meeting out of convenience because you both live in Texas.
Theres nothing wrong with looking for and meeting local aspies, of course. But I think thats better for finding friends first, than specifically looking for a partner that way.
Not 'really depressed' exactly, but I do find them 'hopeless sounding' and kind of cluelessly poignant.
I agree absolutely with your advice, try making a connection with people first. Your advice should be read and absorbed by all
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While I agree with you, we also got to understand that not everyone on the same level of education (and by that I don't mean school but in general), some are more affected asperger and may have had very low support throught their life. So don't mind them asking thing you don't like or find odd, just give them suggestion on what they should do in place, which you did in this post, but I disagree with how you presented the situation in your introduction, don't really need to lower their self-esteem by adding so many negative adjective over their action, for those doing that must already need such help in that department.
Hope what I said made sense.
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Any guys out there in London? Just kidding.
I'm getting sick of those types of threads, as well. That's what Aspie Affection is supposed to be for. It's a turn off for me, since I'm not really interested in guys, right now. Is there a rule that says that every person on this planet, over the age of 17 is supposed to have a romantic partner? Oh, please!
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Why the heck would any woman want to reply, to some guy who just wants "anyone convenient" and knows nothing about them as a person.
Heres my idea -
look around the forum to find people (male and female) who share your interests, be it politics, rock music, science.
Then, chat to them for a while, untill you find a couple that you really "click" with, same sense of humor, same outlook on life, easy to chat to. Send them PMs telling them you like their posts and would like to be friends with them. Then get to know them better over email, pm, phone msn or whatever.
If you make as many friends as you can this way, IMO you are far more likely to meet a partner on here.
And (as has been proved by couples here) if they're the right one they'll travel any distance to meet you, as opposed to meeting out of convenience because you both live in Texas.
Theres nothing wrong with looking for and meeting local aspies, of course. But I think thats better for finding friends first, than specifically looking for a partner that way.
Well said.
I'm getting sick of those types of threads, as well. That's what Aspie Affection is supposed to be for. It's a turn off for me, since I'm not really interested in guys, right now. Is there a rule that says that every person on this planet, over the age of 17 is supposed to have a romantic partner? Oh, please!
You know, I thought that site was dead. Alex decided to resurrect it then?
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look around the forum to find people (male and female) who share your interests, be it politics, rock music, science.
Then, chat to them for a while, untill you find a couple that you really "click" with, same sense of humor, same outlook on life, easy to chat to. Send them PMs telling them you like their posts and would like to be friends with them. Then get to know them better over email, pm, phone msn or whatever.
If you make as many friends as you can this way, IMO you are far more likely to meet a partner on here.
And (as has been proved by couples here) if they're the right one they'll travel any distance to meet you, as opposed to meeting out of convenience because you both live in Texas.
Theres nothing wrong with looking for and meeting local aspies, of course. But I think thats better for finding friends first, than specifically looking for a partner that way.
Great idea I've seen thus far...and aspies are usually not the type to just rush into relationships unless they're "desperate". Whoops...I might get in trouble for saying that. * *;
Plus most of these posts imo are more bound to scare single gals away rather than embrace them like the makings of a spider web. Being discrete and too vague isn't going to help.
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No.
I have my own stuff, no need to take on/in someone else's.
That's where the poster is at, and they're working out where they're at.
Give them a chance to go through their process.
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I do look for female Aspies with the same interests and beliefs as me, but finding somebody is impossible. I don't limit myself to a certain area.
Artsy, likes Simpsons and South Park, Republican, Christian, curvy in appearance, college educated, and sexually uninhibited.
I did meet someone with the above characteristics, but she turned me down because of the distance (and she just lived in another part of Texas). I tried to reason with her, but she wouldn't listen or compromise, and insisted on having everything her way all the time. She eventually ran off with someone else and refuses to even be my friend anymore.
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Give them a chance to go through their process.
That's the bottom line right there. But if you (the OP) is already "sick" of these posts after only your fifth post in the forum, I might suggest that you get sick of things a little too easily.
It can get a little depressing, yes, but nowhere near as depressing as actually being a lifetime loner, which you kinda have to be in order to post something like that... I should know, as I have, in the past, posted a couple lfw threads myself... and I can tell you that if you're that depressed, you would do that too...
I've been at that level of depressed, and I can tell you that you go long enough without love, you start to see things that aren't really there...
Then, chat to them for a while, untill you find a couple that you really "click" with, same sense of humor, same outlook on life, easy to chat to. Send them PMs telling them you like their posts and would like to be friends with them. Then get to know them better over email, pm, phone msn or whatever.
If you make as many friends as you can this way, IMO you are far more likely to meet a partner on here.
I have done that as well, and while I agree that you can make some good friends, love won't come from it... I got carried away once and asked a woman over pm if she liked me, and got the "you're a good friend, but I don't like you in that way" speech... I'm just as much of an abysmal failure on the internet as I am in real life, so in the end it doesn't matter anyway, does it?
Except I can't expect anyone to do what I wouldn't... I don't want to leave my local area... heading across the country to meet someone that I couldn't even pick out in a crowd sounds like suicide...
And also finding a social group that won't immediately ostracize you...
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Artsy, likes Simpsons and South Park, Republican, Christian, curvy in appearance, college educated, and sexually uninhibited.
I did meet someone with the above characteristics, but she turned me down because of the distance (and she just lived in another part of Texas). I tried to reason with her, but she wouldn't listen or compromise, and insisted on having everything her way all the time. She eventually ran off with someone else and refuses to even be my friend anymore.
I really don't see this angle working out for you, it just sounds rigid. Being a christian and a republican for instance, being a christian isn't anything to be ashamed of. But in your income bracket (and mine), being a republican just makes you a complete sucker. They've turned into the rich helping the rich lately, there's still the independant party.
You definately don't want to have a 1 track mind and go from christianity, to politics, to your future career, everyone gets turned off by that. It's like they say, stop and smell the roses, or in my case, get high.
Artsy, likes Simpsons and South Park, Republican, Christian, curvy in appearance, college educated, and sexually uninhibited.
I did meet someone with the above characteristics, but she turned me down because of the distance (and she just lived in another part of Texas). I tried to reason with her, but she wouldn't listen or compromise, and insisted on having everything her way all the time. She eventually ran off with someone else and refuses to even be my friend anymore.
I really don't see this angle working out for you, it just sounds rigid. Being a christian and a republican for instance, being a christian isn't anything to be ashamed of. But in your income bracket (and mine), being a republican just makes you a complete sucker. They've turned into the rich helping the rich lately, there's still the independant party.
Republican Christians in American are by definition rigid and controlling. That is the essence that brand of conservativism--"my way or no way." Very authoritarian, very hostile towards anything they can't control or oppress, which in a free, democratic society like ours means A LOT. They think they are the only "reasonable" people--everyone else is either unreasonable or flat-out idiots. So they also tend to be very hateful and abusive people too, contrary to their claims of being Christian. Hence why, right now, so many of them are supportive of everything from murdering abortion providers, to murdering black people or gays, to assassinating our president and other elected officials.
Most of these people are fixated obsessively on their myopic ideals and are very fearful of and hostile toward differing viewpoints, or even toward reality itself. It very hard to get them to see the flaws in their thinking.
Tim Tex's comments are no exception. He blames the woman 100%, indicative of someone who's controlling and unreasonable. And his conflicting and unrealistic list of what he wants in a woman reads like the typical personal ad on a white supremacist dating page.
Yes!
In all seriousness... I can see both sides of this. I've tried online dating and I hate it... a lot of sites are very US-centric.
But I've held off (for now) posting anything in the singles thread for a few reasons - partly because we're male-heavy around here, partly due to other things in the numbers. And also because I'm getting a lot of stuff straight in my head.
I know it's not to everyone's taste, but folks have the right to try and find whatever makes them happy. I say live and let live.
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*Shrug* OP has a point I guess. I come here because it's a support site. And it's my understanding that the love and dating bit is to provide guidance and encouragement in gaining intrapersonal skills, or a fresh perspective on a situation.
Guys looking for girls in their area would probably have more luck in a dating service because the women on there are looking. Or at the very least posting in one of the specifically designated stickies thread for this sort of thing.
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