I need to get over this delusional mindset that a guy and a girl out together = couple
I suffer from high-functioning autism, am really good with beginner social interactions and social media, and I see a video of a girl and a guy doing TikTok booty dances in the same video, I immediately feel jealous. Addison Rae did the same crap with her BROTHER. People thought that was her boyfriend.
Guys and gals can make friends without ever making it sexual or even a date. I just have a hard time making friends, ESPECIALLY FEMALE friends, outside of school because of my shyness and outbursts. I need to start putting my damn self in other people's shoes. Autistic men have no sympathy... that's unfortunate for more than 70% of autistic men (+20% if of European/MENA descent, which includes me) actually..
My mind explodes when a girl that I talk to literally takes a pic with a guy next to her. I feel jealous because she doesn't caption "boo" or "boyfriend." I feel completely different when it's two girls or two guys. Admittedly, my culture (Jordanian and Armenian) views "traditional gender roles" (read: toxic masculinity... which actually makes men lowkey weaker than women) as ideal. Most of my cousins especially on the Jordanian side have ditched that ideology. (Armenians tend to be ultraconservative.)
I suffer from high-functioning autism, am really good with beginner social interactions and social media, and I see a video of a girl and a guy doing TikTok booty dances in the same video, I immediately feel jealous. Addison Rae did the same crap with her BROTHER. People thought that was her boyfriend.
Guys and gals can make friends without ever making it sexual or even a date. I just have a hard time making friends, ESPECIALLY FEMALE friends, outside of school because of my shyness and outbursts. I need to start putting my damn self in other people's shoes. Autistic men have no sympathy... that's unfortunate for more than 70% of autistic men (+20% if of European/MENA descent, which includes me) actually..
My mind explodes when a girl that I talk to literally takes a pic with a guy next to her. I feel jealous because she doesn't caption "boo" or "boyfriend." I feel completely different when it's two girls or two guys. Admittedly, my culture (Jordanian and Armenian) views "traditional gender roles" (read: toxic masculinity... which actually makes men lowkey weaker than women) as ideal. Most of my cousins especially on the Jordanian side have ditched that ideology. (Armenians tend to be ultraconservative.)
