Russian smokers. Between them and drone debris…

That’s really interesting and not something I would have considered, thank you for sharing! I wonder how that impacts communication for deaf autistic folks who suck at body language?

Agreed. It’s definitely appealing to not have to put in any work, but sabotaging every relationship and having to start over again and again because you expect mindreaders sounds absolutely exhausting.

Like I said, it’s about maturity and the wisdom to realize all that bad advice is bullshit. As a partner you can try to be the one to call her out on it and build good communication skills from the ground up, or you can recognize the pattern and move on to someone who is willing to explicitly ask for their needs to be met.

As for The Expanse, the linked page rates it as a 4:

One Big Lie: The author invents one (or, at most, a very few) counterfactual physical laws and writes a story that explores the implications of these principles. Consider, for instance, Cities in Flight’s “Dirac Equations” and “spindizzy motor” leading to instantaneous communication, or Mass Effect’s “Element Zero” being the basis for all of the series’ futuristic technology. Other works in this class include The Expanse series, the Ad Astra board games, Robert A. Heinlein’s Farnham’s Freehold, and many of Vernor Vinge’s books.

Find a woman mature enough to communicate her needs and ask explicitly for your attention? Anyone of any gender who expects their partner to be a mind reader is going to be disappointed, but people that learn to communicate their feelings and teach their partners that it is safe to do the same will be much happier. If they get upset at having to tell you what they’re thinking or feeling, they’re not ready for a serious relationship yet.

Honestly, medication helped with this for me. Seeing how hyper stimulants make other folks while they settle me down. The amount of productivity I experienced in my first few weeks of medication was outstanding. Sadly, those tapered off and while i didn’t return to mean, now I barely functional without them.

Of course autism is not treatable by medication…