cyberdad wrote:
P1R wrote:
While I consider myself to be over her, I find these sort of exercises therapeutic (plus saw her this week). I admit I'm incredibly intrigued about how someone on the spectrum would process breaking up her first relationship (at 27-28), so I'm posting mainly out of curiosity.
I am anticipating the same as an NT who has broken up (people on the spectrum are humans too). You may be misinterpreting her lack of reciprocation especially given she broke up with you. Nobody here knows whether it was really her shortcomings or your incapacity to deal with her personality/autism that she (perhaps) perceived would mean the relationship would never work. You are looking at this through your lens and not hers.
OP has absolutely no authorization that ex girlfriend is on the spectrum, he purely speculates this because she finds his behaviour unacceptable. Said girlfriend didn't tolerate him flirting with other girls and letting them drink his beer in her presence while she is
holding his hand! , plus his hating her family and pressuring her into going to therapy for behaviour that bothers only
him! .
He thinks that she is on the spectrum whereas I think OP hasn't a clue about appropriate social norms and behaviour and should seek help himself. If you can't defend a girl's honour and protect her feelings while you are dating, and you let some other girl flirt while girlfriend is in your presence, and don't object or put a stop to it, then you are an ass and don't deserve said girlfriend. She was smart enough to pick up on the innappropriacy of his bad behaviour and move on to where she will be respected.
It's too easy to label someone autistic just because they don't fit the emotional template that we need.
What does OP want anyway, just to vent his hate for a girl he treated very badly? Not very mature and certainly counter-productive.
This is purely a case of OP's wounded ego.
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