A woman at the gym was for a brief moment on the verge of actually relating to me as a man until she got to the most important part.

I was chatting with a woman at the gym for over an hour about how I had a difficult time finding a wife. I told her about how I've been looking for 2 years. She apologized. <br><br>She asked me what I'm looking for in a partner and I explained to her some normal, standard stuff for a man. She said she's never seen a man cry about this topic before. <br><br>At 25, I was 6 months into a relationship, and my partner at the time found out I was autistic, and left me over it. I've for a long time for decades felt like something was wrong with me, but I just couldn't put my finger on it, and I even went through an entire high school and most of college before I knew I was autistic. <br><br>I told her about how I was dating someone for 2 years, and the relationship was just barely starting to go somewhere, but the girlfriend decided that I was too much after my sister passed away, and I had to move, and that that was a sign that we needed to break up. <br><br>I told her about the girl I recently connected with and how we met in person, and suddenly her personality changed because she realized I have autism. <br><br>I explained to her the whole process of talking on the phone, what that's like, and then having a change in behavior over something that has for the most part no effect on anyone else's life. <br><br>All of a sudden it clicked and she said "I would never break up with someone just because they have autism." She looked at me like "you're not autistic, though!! Because you're so intelligent and sometimes I think people with Autism are not the greatest." There was a hint of disgust in her voice by the last part. <br><br>She then got up and said "Oh, I see my friend, I'm going to go over there." <br><br>And never came back.