How NTs get together

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Somehow ended up with her, but like it would fit my experience if I were straight.

I hope you don't believe every non-autistic gets together in this fashion.

Geez, that's a sad way to get together with someone. "We weren't that interested in one another but we were the best each other could do."

Most of my (NT) friends can sense when someone likes them and they flirt, hang out, plan meetings, etc if they want to get to know each other better.

Seems like I'm not missing much.

Glad I'm not neurotypical.

When he came to fix the plumbing, I banged his brains out.

One word: WEIRD.

This is a basic illustration of why I think we aspies have trouble finding relationships. My theory is simple. I begin with the assumption that most relationships happen almost randomly and for almost no identifiable reason, rather than as a result of a purposeful search for a suitable mate. Thus, it follows that it's just a matter of being exposed to enough people often enough to have one of those combinations of random unrelated events to occur. Like so many things in our universe, it comes down to probabilities. If the initial assumption is true, and my observation suggests it is likely to be true, then the theory makes sense, and we can use that knowledge to understand the situation we find ourselves in.

I suspect you'll find a LOT of NTs with stories similar to that one, where it just kind of happened not on purpose. My dad, who I strongly suspect is aspie and in some ways is more limited than me, didn't date till he was in college and it was my understanding that it was my mother (very liberated feminist type) that initiated the relationship for the most part. She had him as a lab assistant when he was in grad school and thought he was smart and attractive so they started going out. My father was seldom social outside of his job, so it was a highly improbable event that he ended up married, a fact he himself recognizes.

We aspies don't socialize as much, so the odds of having one of these "random" relationships develop with the few social contacts we have are much lower. If we actively look for a gf/bf, we're going against the basic nature of how NT socialization works, especially at younger ages, so we may come across as needy, clingy, desperate, or even creepy. I suspect that as they get older, more NTs will seek out mates with more purpose as the biological clock starts to tick down and they start thinking about ending up old and alone or all the good ones being "taken". If they have children and become solo parents, they'll be more purpose driven still because they have time constraints that force them to get right to the point, and they're driven to have a complete family for social perception reasons. I'm counting on the accuracy of this theory to give me a little better chance dating now than the last time I seriously tried in college.

haaa is that serious?

It's probably very true that most people settle. Face it, you're not going to end up in a relationship with your celebrity crush. Time to face reality.

That's hilarious. XD

When I was fourteen(I'm almost twenty-four) I decided I was in love with Brian... over the f-cking internet. And I decided I was going to marry him someday. Fast forward, we met when I was eighteen, hung out a lot, he thought I had no interest in him whatsoever, moved to a different state for a year or so, dated a couple of different women, nothing serious... he moved back to Texas... we spoke frequently, he was actually friends with my boyfriend five years before I met him... dumped my boyfriend... ended up with Brain. I dated(OK sometimes just slept with) nearly forty people in nearly a decade. Just to distract me from Brian and not having him.

November 2009 we got together. We live together. I stopped selling drugs so we could live together. He's just about perfect. I'm totally batshit.

I still think I'm going to marry him someday.