How to recognize when a girl is flirting with you?
If they seek privacy with you, or hint at it, it's usually serious I think.
Otherwise I think it's a matter of counting up the signs........I suspect that the non-serious flirt doesn't keep chipping away at anybody, it's a gesture or two at most. It doesn't develop.
It doesn't help that the NT mating ritual is often full of deliberate obfuscation. Not many women would be pleased if they seriously fancied a guy and somebody spilled the beans to the object of their desires.
I think there's some tossing of or touching of her mane. Laughing. Mirroring your body movements. Lots of smiling.
Or I'm just talking out of my @ss.
Body language can only really be judged in clusters, not single things by themselves. A woman exposing her neck, eye contact beyond normal duration, arm movements, preening, etc viewed together can indicate flirting, but one movement alone is not enough to form a conclusion.
There is that. If they are being flirty but not actually interested and you take it as an interest and find out later that it's not, it ends up backfiring and becoming detrimental to your self-esteem instead of helping it, as was hopefully the person's initial intent.
Yeah. I, being Aspie, have trouble reading if she's actually interested, or just being nice. It's landed me in trouble a few times before.
I can't really say I have alot to contribute to this one except my amazing blindness for hints as subtle as a car in your face.
One girl came around my house basicly every day for two weeks and tried to talk to me, it took me three months to figure out why she would possibly do such a thing. ^^
Next one had bluntly told me she liked me not even a week before and litteraly had her pantys in her hand and was dressed in nothing but a T-shirt, I still had no clue what she was going for.
So dont feel bad if you feel like you cant read the signes of flirting, you're in very good company.
ahaha yeah. I've had similar experiences, a long time ago. Such as a girl I knew sharing a cab with me to and from a club, while everyone else got a different cab. I didn't know anything was going on until I was asked by a male friend the next day how I got on with her
I think it has something to do with that girls are not allowed to be "avaible", atleast I've red that somewhere, so she "secretly" (as in: completly obvious to everyone but us) that she wants you to take the first step.
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Heh. I had the precise same experience, but I knew what was going on. I just had no idea what to do. So I entertained doubt.
It's drilled into our heads the concept of appearing slu*ty versus being available. Too many moves is a turn off to some guys, which does make it harder to know how much is too much when dealing with an oblivious Aspie guy.
This one time, at band camp, i was getting pretty friendly with this lovely girl whom i really enjoyed spending time with. During an after work party we were drinking and talking, then someone suggested getting in the pool for a swim. We did so and there was quite a bit of body contact. There was quite a lot of body contact. Just a bit of poolside fun i thought, oblivious.
Later that night a few of us decided to go back to her flat and we eventually crashed on the floor. The girl lay beside me on her side. We we face to face looking deep into eachothers eyes. She held my hand and squeezed it every couple of minutes or so, which i of course returned. She moved her arm and i felt a touch near my nether regions, to which in suprise i said "whoops, a bit low there" and her hand withdrew. A few minutes later her her breathing became heavier and she started to 'vibrate'. She soon ran off to the bathroom and i took that opportunity to close my eyes and fake sleeping. When she returned, she picked up my hand and began squeezing again, then when i wouldnt return it (in sleep), she started sqeezing like my hand was a dead animal and she was trying to revive it.
The next day she wouldnt look at me. I was confused.
It was only 2 years later that i realised what happened that night and what she was doing.
Been there done that.
I've sometimes, in my childhood, thought that this life I live now is a rehearsal, and for every mistake I make, I have to remember them and think of alternative solutions on how to react, so I can behave like I am suppose to in my next life.
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It's drilled into our heads the concept of appearing slu*ty versus being available. Too many moves is a turn off to some guys, which does make it harder to know how much is too much when dealing with an oblivious Aspie guy.
With some of the guys here, I suspect anything short of showing your hands down their pants would work. If you look at the "One time at bandcamp" story, that may not even be enough.
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Just two days ago I had one of this odd events happen.
I was meeting quite a few friends that are a bit older so I wasnt expecting anything to happen. It was just a friday night meetup to avoid staying at home doing nothing.
I arrived a bit early because I had no idea where the place we were supposed to meet was. L arrived a few minutes afterwards so we went inside to order something and wait for others.
She ordered an ice coffee with cream and it seemed nice so I asked for the same.
We got talking and at some point she thought itd be ok to just put her straw on my drink and take the cream.
I was unsure of what to do but she had cream on hers so I did the opposite thing.
We smiled at each other and she pretended to be offended by what I did.
It took half an hour and several friends to arrive to realize that something odd had happened.
As I previously suggested Im just going to lookout for other signs and try to forget obsessing about it
It's drilled into our heads the concept of appearing slu*ty versus being available. Too many moves is a turn off to some guys, which does make it harder to know how much is too much when dealing with an oblivious Aspie guy.
With some of the guys here, I suspect anything short of showing your hands down their pants would work. If you look at the "One time at bandcamp" story, that may not even be enough.
I think that's why I've gotten to the point that if I really like someone I'll verbalize it. Displaying through physical might give off the wrong impression - that I just want to get laid versus actually being interested in pursuing a relationship. Now, if I just want to get laid, then I'll flirt away.
Too bad I have to over-think this every single time. I've had a couple guys get turned off by that, but if they're getting turned off by that, then they don't want someone like me to begin with, that's for sure.
It took my Aspie 9 months, 9 months I tell ya to realize I was interested in him. I brought him food, baked cookies, wrote love poems, visited, texted and emailed him every day. I smiled at him a lot, batted my eyes, touched him on his arm or back whenever I could. So one day he tells me it "seemed" I was interested him. I'm like "uh ya think"! ! At that time he told me he had AS. It all made sense. Maybe he started thinking about it earlier than that but at 9 months I guess he was convinced. I "turned up the volume" on the flirting during the 9 months. Not because I wanted to get laid ( although at some point it would have been nice! lol) but because he just wasn't "getting it". I know some people would have given up because it would seem the person wasn't interested. But for some reason I didn't. I usually don't give up on what I want so quickly.
Why didn't you put a move on him?
