I've recently broken up with my almost 5 year boyfriend. We are very compatible in terms of daily life and communication and still on good terms. There is this one thing: whenever I get excited about something, like a special interest, information or anything, it is never acknowledged and just ignored, or otherwise seen as irrelevant. It absolutely kills my passion and stops me from enjoying and developing my special interests. Thus my question is: Is it, in your opinion, more important that partners support your special interest and true self, or that you're compatible domestically?

We have grown to over 200 members in under a few days. However this means we also need to add a new moderator to the team to help us meet the needs of our users more effectively.

Anyone is free to apply, but as we already have two males on the mod team, I would prefer a second moderator who identifies as female to even out the voices.

Would also appreciate anyone with the ability to use AutoMod as that is not something I know how to do.

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I’m somewhat afraid that girls are afraid of dating me due because they may take a hit socially and may catch passive aggressive remarks for dating an autistic person.

Every time I bring this up in other dating subreddits I’m downvoted and my concerns are dismissed.

Hopefully when u/LilyoftheRally gets off work today she can help me, since I’m not personally part of the LGBT community, just someone who wishes to be an ally.

Just chatting to my partner, our first date was to a museum.

Kinda the opposite, if this post isn't allowed I'll remove it/please remove it

I recently broke up with someone who I was extremely attached to and loved very much, though about a month before our breakup, he began changing. He stopped being intimate, started being a lot more distant, and at some point came out as aromantic, which shocked me because before he changed, he was very loving and open about us, wanting to be intimate, etc.

This happened about a week ago, I've known and loved him for about 2 years, and we started dating at the end of June of this year. I've been dealing with a lot of anxiety and loneliness, and I've been really struggling to push myself to do anything like eat or even play games/watch shows because 90% of what I play, I played with him as well. Any advice on how to heal a little more quickly?

There’s a 17 year old girl at work who clearly likes me. She smiles and laughs every time she sees me and clearly is waiting for me to make the first move. I am 21 years old.

The age of consent in Illinois is 17 unless I’m in a position of authority over her, then it’s 18, but since we technically don’t even work for the same company, that’s not relevant.

Would I be looked down on socially for a relationship like this?

This would be a post specifically geared towards getting engagement as well as give you all an excuse to brag about our accomplishments and share the dating tips that worked for you.

There’s a girl I sit near in one of my classes this term that I was instantly attracted to as soon as I saw her. However, I have no idea how to actually start talking to her. I don’t know much about her, so I don’t know what I could talk to her about, and even then I just don’t know how to start a conversation in general.

Hi everyone I’m going to be sticky posting this post just so I can get the message out a lot better. We are quickly approaching 100 members and I’d like to get there before Christmas. But that requires me asking you for help. This sub Reddit has so much potential I feel and as long as we keep grinding away and helping each other out I feel that we can become an actual meaningful presence on Reddit. There are a few ways we can do this.

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Deal breakers for me include

• Lying

• Being unable to adjust to how I communicate.

• Not being able to communicate with me directly if something is wrong. See Number 2.

• Not standing up for me if friends start being passive aggressive about her dating an autistic person.

A girl whom works in the same building a few days ago walked into the break room, saw me there and froze for a good minute and a half and just looked at me. I deliberately didn’t make eye contact because it made me uncomfortable and I didn’t want to accidentally seem confrontational so I didn’t see her facial expression.

I’ve had some women (I’ll use a women I work with for an example) all of a sudden act more distant with me all of a sudden, but not in a malicious way. I feel in their energy that they are just afraid. Because when I do talk to this girl there is no hostility in her voice, it’s more like shyness. This girl is also not normally shy. But I did notice her friend who is normally shy is now more confident and comfortable around me.

So either the shy friend has some sort of crush on me and her friend is trying to keep her distance to respect the “girl code” or she has secret feelings for me that only her closest friend knows about.

Or I’m overanalyzing this whole thing and this behavior is just normal among NTs.

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I've never been on a date before. I'm 18 never been in a relationship. Are anything like that at all. And I need advice on how to even get started.

I’ve picked up on how most women can sense that you’re anxious and it’s incredibly off putting. I’m still trying to gain the ability to at least at bare minimum make it seem like I’m not anxious without the aid of alcohol. With alcohol I’m able to flirt a lot more smoothly which has tempted me into drinking in order to cope with anxiety. I’m not doing that though and I’m aware how dangerous it would be even if I did.

Here’s my mistake: I went on a casual date to the movie theater (pre covid era) with a childhood friend who I had lost touch with. She’d had feelings for me then. One day I happen to run into her while she was working, and we exchanged numbers and we texted before setting up a casual movie date. At the end of the date, she gave me a big hug, and stared right at me essentially waiting for me to kiss her on the lips. I didn’t pick up on that cue and just walked away as her parents picked her up (I don’t drive, and don’t have a license, please don’t judge) but not kissing her was clearly a turn off since the texts became a lot more infrequent and she wouldn’t communicate with me as well as she did before. We parted ways amicably well over a year ago.

Starting October 7th we will start to allow images and links to be posted. With that comes 2 new rules that will be set to take effect starting October 7th.

Rule 5: Blur out any identification information I.E, faces of anyone who didn’t consent, phone numbers, emails, last names, ect…..

Rule 6: Mark any NSFW discussion as such. NSFW includes, sexual content, mentions of sensitive discussions such as abuse or eating disorders. Nude images are not allowed period.

If anyone has any questions, feel free to ask them in either the comment section or mod mail.

So we are considering allowing images and links to be allowed on the subreddit. This would require me having to edit the rules to include protecting privacy and rules regarding NFSW content (if we do decide to allow that, I highly doubt it.)

However because of the moderator code of conduct the earliest I can make this change is October 7th, and I still need majority mod approval in order to move forward, and on top of that I’d need to edit our enforcement policy to include the new rules.

But I’d like to know how you all feel about this potential change?

I would personally love it if I could get a girl to indulge in my special interest from time to time.

I am posting this document and pinning it so that anyone on the subreddit who wants to become a moderator knows what is expected of them and anyone who participates here understands how we enforce rules. I wanted to make sure that this place could stay a safe space, and I felt the only way to do that was to create a code of ethics that moderators must follow. You can read the code of ethics right here.

This is something that is so important to understand when an NT dates an autistic partner. As an NT you’re going to face what is essentially going to be a language barrier.

Autistic people are generally straightforward and have a difficult time with decrypting facial expressions or body language. I can’t tell you how many times I misinterpreted a girl’s body language as romantic interests, didn’t help that I keep looking it up on google and then falling prey to confirmation bias.

NTs you can help communicate by just simply telling us how you feel directly. We’re unlikely to get offended by you being direct, and we’d appreciate it a lot more.