Rexi wrote:
They seem scared and uncomfortable with the thought you are hitting on them. The other possibility is they're disgusted by low self esteem and public stimming and probably scared by its weirdness
Certainly the serial killer interest won't go well with all that, especially not in the few years of them getting to know you
Gossip can be very powerful, sadly, especially for women. They are inherently scared of advances, rape and being killed.
While all that makes sense, I haven't talked about serial killers with anybody at work. And it's not like it's my special interest, I watch some documentaries sometimes, nothing more.
My stimming is quite discrete. Pulling my fingers underneath the table and things like that.
I'm not that fond of gossip, and I tend to stay away from that kind of practice. In fact I usually say something of the sort of "shut up, I don't want to know" if I hear gossip.
The main thing here is that I talked quite a lot with them about my autism and tried at least to explain what it means.
The other thing is that their behaviours changed abruptly from one day to another.
The second colleauge already had some knowlege of autism, since she has autistic friends.
And I'm almost 53 years old, I would have thought that something similar would had popped up previously if I'm actually acting creepy.
And as I said, I tend to get along a bit better with females than men, so it makes little sense for me that I should be seen as a potential rapist or whatnot.
/Mats
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