Can aspergers co-occur with erotomania ?

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Hi everybody,
Here's my question : Can aspergers co-occur with erotomania ?

I mean : can an aspie misinterpret someone's behaviour and end up developping erotomania, starting, for instance, to stalk the person , etc ... ?

Thanks ) !

hey please ... no one ?

I think it's entirely possible.

Yes, it is very possible for someone with Aspergers to develop erotomania. The same could occur with NTs. When a person give signs and signals (which may be to get the other party interested or not) this can happen so easily and quickly develop into limerence, which imho, is basically about having obsessive/intrusive thoughts about wanting to be with a person. Erotomania may be slightly different in this, that the person is usually a person of a higher status or famous, and perhaps older. (for instance, a mayor, a psychiatrist/therapist, or even a movie star that the person has or hasn't met). Also, when I looked up the definition it leaned toward there being a strong desire to want "physical contact" of an intimate matter with them. Perhaps limerance is more of a strong crush along with "feelings of love" which is not returned.

I've had this (and am still going through it). But it is someone I have known for at least 6 years now. We met around 2009, but have had off and on contact with him over the years. We work in the same field/area, so our paths would sometimes intersect, even more so due to his position. It took me over 1.5 year of pushing myself not to contact him via email, phone, or in person...just to get a perspective of how it was not healthy for me to be so invested emotionally into someone that it would never work out with but also to not cheat myself out of finding the right person because of daydreaming about "Mr. Wrong" or rather "Mr. Unavailable." Although I'm still trying to recover from it, am trying to think of him less because it hurts.

Do you mind sharing more about your own situation? If so, maybe me or someone else on here could help further by knowing a few details. Such as what are your personal interactions like...if any? What type of signals did she seem to give?

It's Assburger after all.... erotomania is an understatement.

Hello Lostiehere,

thanks a lot for your answer ( i was getting to desperate about getting further answers lol )

In fact, the situation does not concern me directly but one of my friend (she's my best friend) and a guy who has Aspergers ...

I have already posted the situation in a topic ad I would be very glad if you would bother and come to my topic in order to give me your opinion about whether or not this aspie guy has erotomania ...

Here's the link : viewtopic.php?t=288256

Thanks a lot )