Aloneness and understanding that.

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Greg,

I would love to understand this better. When someone leaves you for something or someone better (whatever better seems to be) - even if that hurts, on some level you understand. But to leave someone you claim to love to be alone - with nothing. Somehow that is more painful for me to understand. If you can help better understanding, it would be a gift.

Cheryl - NT

Re: Einstein quote that may indicate AS.

Further to this note I sent yesterday does anyone want to explore the nature of being alone, feeling alone and lonliness from an AS perspective and what was the reaction if any from NT partners on learning this. Those NTs on the list I think there is a different perception of what lonliness means for AS and NT alike.

Greg dx AS at 53

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Einstein quote that may indicate AS.

I found this quote by Einstein who as some of you may be aware it is speculated that he may have been AS or displaying some of the common symptoms. "My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude..."

This is a quote that I can most identify with and that my NT partner would find hurtful as I once remember saying that from when I could remember I have always felt alone (not lonely). It was interpreted I think as a dig at her rather than an honest observation about what I truly felt.

Can any other AS people out there detect some resonance with this?

Greg

dx AS at 53