CivilSam's Adventures in Online Dating (and yours too)

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Anyone have any funny online dating stories? I have a few but I'll share my most recent one which made me chuckle.

ME: Hi ------, I'd like to chat if you would like the same. Question, who is your favorite Doctor from Doctor Who?
Her: Hi ------. I'll be straight up honest with you, chatting is as far as it will go. Not sure if you're still interested but I'll still answer your question. By far, David Tennant was the best!​

If this is what it is to be a NT, I don't want it >.<;

Lol, she acts like she's doing you a favour.

One of my funniest online dating stories is when this Philippine girl chatted me up on Facebook A few months later she dumped me. I wanted to recreated the same spark so I looked up foreign girls' profiles on OK Cupid and currently 3 Philippine girls, 1 Vietnamese girl and 1 Thai girl think I'm going to marry them.

I found out that the Department of Immigration is really annoying to deal with so I got a date with a nice local girl instead.

When someone says their favourite doctor is anyone other than Jon Pertwee or Tom Baker, that's your cue to friendzone them.

I think she seems friendly and pleasant. She's probably had men accuse her of 'leading them on' when she responded with friendliness to their messages, and then declined a request for a date. She's now being up front about it. That strikes me as honest and decent. She even recognises you may no longer want to chat with her, and then goes on to talk to you incase you do. Seems a pretty solid, mature human being to me.

Mine have been pretty good. I messaged some women, they didn't reply. Some messaged me, I didn't reply. Other times conversations started but then petered out when there wasn't much to say. A few resulted in dates, and one in a relationship.

Oh, I did have someone message me because we'd mentioned 'twilight' in our profiles, and we'd been 'wordmatched' on that. I meant the time of day, they meant the vampire stories (haven't read or seen them). A similar thing happened with 'vodka'. I'd used the word in a quote from a friend, they liked drinking the stuff. Wordmatched again. I don't drink alcohol, and they were very much into partying to the point of being wasted.

Both matters were cleared up with minimal fuss, and hilarity failed to ensue.

How on earth did that happen? Is your life actually a farce or something?

I'm really indecisive.

So you ask five different women to marry you?

I don't mean to criticise, but there's better ways to deal with this. Names drawn from a hat, maybe?

I don't think that encompasses the entirety of what it is to be neurotypical. What would prevent a female who is not neurotypical from responding that way if they aren't interested in a relationship?

Very true, but why be on a dating site if you aren't interested in a relationship? Also, if she wasn't interested in a relationship with me, that is completely fine, but I don't understand how someone can come to that conclusion instantly without even conversing. Also, my NT comment has a lot to do with this and the whole online dating scene which seems very fake and non personal. I of course didn't really explain that very well because well, I'm not the best at taking what's in my head and putting it to paper or conversation. Anyways, what I was getting at is that the dating world of NT's seems very much like a jungle and it's very confusing to me.

Maybe she looked over your profile and came to the conclusion you weren't a compatible match. I mean the profile isn't for nothing its usually a big part of how people gauge if they are at all interested in someone on a dating site. But I couldn't say what exactly was going on in her head, maybe she isn't even looking for something serious and is more interested in hook ups who knows.

Also I sort of get what your saying, I just took it literal...since I know not every neurotypical participates in the typical dating world per say, I guess I'd more call it the typical dating world or something. I do however agree that its like a confusing jungle or a weird game with rules you never know up front. At least with okcupid there wasn't a question about who is available and who may already be taken and give both people the chance to learn a little bit about each other before meeting...and I suck at approaching people and much of the time am apparently not too approachable myself. Of course some of that typical dating world jungle of confusion stuff does overlap into dating sites as well, still seems to simplify it a bit though just have to kind of weed through all the 'typical' people.

Ok, I think I've found my marbles. At the moment I'm in a relationship with one girl and she lives in the same city as me and we hang out in meatspace and I haven't proposed to her.