Aspergers and Dating sites

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Just Looking for opinions regarding putting the fact your diagnosed in your profile on dating sites
Basically do you think its a good idea or a detail best kept secret until you are more "acquainted".
At the moment i am only a member of one and i have kept the fact i am an aspie out of my profile data and probably will for the foreseeable future,i'm mostly just curious as to what the general consensus on the topic is.

I have a few dating profiles out there, and I didn't put it on there. I don't think it would be a problem if you did though. Another option is that you could also wait until you know the person you begin dating a little bit better. That's what I've been doing.

While growing up I was a bit afraid of others finding out, more recently it's come to be a sort of a non-issue. People don't ask, so I don't necessarily remember to tell(as if it were some horrible disease to watch out for), so while some may thing I'm a bit weird, they know it's just me and like me for who I am. I figure that it's really not too crucial one way or the other. If people are alienated just for the knowledge that you are, chances are they probably aren't worth your time.

I put it right there-I want that person to be ok with it-nothing hurts more than to start getting serious then they find out and all of a sudden they break it off because of it and then gone..

From a NT perspective, I think it is an individual choice when and if to disclose information. Delaying disclosure would allow others to know you without forming perceptions and judgements based on a very broad term.

Sometimes telling someone you have AS can help to clear up misunderstandings or arguments that might occur, a diagnosis is there to help yourself and people you interact with. It might explain certain quirks or behaviors that you have or help explain how you are. If I don't tell someone that I have AS, they end up being confused or misunderstanding me. If they really like you, they will accept you for who you are.

I think the best thing to do is put it up there and brush it off as something small and definitely not go into detail because some NT's have a lot of misconceptions.

So saying something like "Hi! I live in this and this place, love this sports team and am this kind of person! Oh btw I'm an Aspie and don't worry it doesn't mean I go round knocking heads or having fits it just means I'm a bit on the quiet side. Though I can be pretty talkative if you get to know me "

That was meant to be comical but give you an idea

I agree, some people don't know what it is and others have misguided stereotypical perceptions of what AS is. It's definitely not the best choice to talk self obsessively about it, I think just a quick sentence or so is enough. If you do talk about it, try to talk about the positive aspects when you do because you don't want to initially come across as negative.

Especially if one is somehow clearly "atypical" person, it is a good idea to give a honest picture about matters. On the other hand, people usually do not throw all the negative things about themselves on their profile. Thus, one needs not to go into any painstaking details. However, if the adequate picture is given, I do not see necessary to speak about any diagnosis.

I mentioned it on my profiles because I thought it might help prevent misunderstandings. Lots of the women I've chatted with on dating sites were very indirect, used lots of subtle hints & said one thing when they really meant something else so I mentioned AS hoping they might be a little more direct, straight-forward & literal with me. Most of the women who did comment about me mentioning AS were women who were under the impression that I would become an extremely successful computer genius like Bill Gates because of my AS They got very disappointed when I told them that I was not great with computers & they quit messaging me. Some of them mentioned how they really s#cked with computers themselves thou so I think they were kind of gold-diggers who were thinking I would become very successful