What's saddening....

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What I find saddening about my love life (more accurately, the total lack of it), is not being virgin or the lack of sex, but rather the lack of adult experiences that I was supposed of having them during my 20s, and no, I am not just referring to sex, but also to intimacy, the feelings, relationship-related's good memories and even the bad memories.

Some claim that being single with the lack of such experiences/memories is much better and less painful than ending up single after an unsuccessful relationship /or series of relationships that all ended up in failure. I totally disagree with this, that's not true at all, not on the long run at least.

This may be true if you are comparing someone who just got a break up some month ago to someone who never experienced love in his life, but on the long run it is the latter who will remain less satisfied in life and still wondering "what it is even like....?". The former is also more likely to experience them again while the latter is more likely to never experience anything of this, an idea that sometimes would horrify him/her, the latter is more likely to have a feeling of always being kinda deprived in life.

Just a simple analogy, Imagine a person A got plenty of toys/games in his life as kid, played with a lot of them yet for some reason he no longer played with toys later in his life (either he got tired of them or just couldn't get them anymore) and the person B has never ever got the opportunity to play with a toy as a kid, yet always saw toys at stores and witnessed other kids owning toys during all his childhood. I guess it's obvious which one would feel more deprived for good, Person A had at least good memories and knew how it's like playing with toys.

That's also why orphans who never knew their parents are much more likely to have psychological issues than orphans who remember their parents and lived with them before they die, the latter type would feel great sadness for years, but the former type would feel emptiness ,lacking...for a lifetime.

I think the saying is its better to have loved and lost than not loved at all.

A quote from someone's signature here on the forums comes to mind after reading this.

"Having is not so pleasing as wanting. It is not logical, but it is often true." (Spock to T'Pring in Amok Time)

There's plenty of time for it though.. I mean there is no time limit for it.

^ So they say.

same effect here, although i'm "only" 24, my experience is almost a carbon copy of that of OP.
i also feel it's starting to hurt my chances of changing that, as i'm expected to have experience. i have had a few situations in which the person i was speaking to (just casually with a random person) shyd away from me after i sorta let slip i was unexperienced.
also, my housemates sort of assumed i was gay for the reason above (though this was before i disclosed my AS).
all in all, i indeed feel like i'm entering a vicious loop where my lack of experience stops me from getting experienced which in turn...

depressing to think about really, especially since the ones that i do manage to speak to about this are usually shocked that "someone as nice as you" didn't have experience, but in the next sentence say they aren't about to help me either :S

That's why I am so anxious to get to college. Everyone says that it is where things will happen! I have gone on one date during high school and I rarely if ever hang out with people so I am at a disadvantage. BUT, everyone says college is going to be sooooo much better and people are more open there or whatever. Thoughts?

Oh, and though I am not in your state, I can feel it, especially during my last year of high school because it seemed like everyone was going on fun dates or had a boyfriend....heck, I only know 2 other girls who didn't go to Prom. =/ So I sorta know on a smaller level, what you are going through.