Peter Wynn
1 min readJan 22, 2022

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As I've said to you before, if I wanted a girlfriend, she would have to be autistic. I describe it like this.

I remember two boys in my Human Relationships Education class who said that they wanted someone who could cook and do domestic duties and they wanted somebody Vietnamese, and they were Vietnamese themselves. Our teacher for that subject said that her niece was marrying a Greek man and there were things that were being discussed about expectations in the Greek culture.

I believe that people should be able to marry anybody they love, but cultural expectations can be a factor in divorce. But, having said that, I remember a dear friend, who was almost like a sister to me, who had a friend who had a boyfriend, and they were both of the same culture, but her parents didn't approve of him, because he wasn't as financially well-off as they'd expected him to be.

I think, if I had a neurotypical girlfriend, she could be quite lonely, because I would need time to myself. I did have a neurotypical girlfriend, many years ago, and it was a total disaster. And, my ex-girlfriend told me that I was "embarrassing and so full of boring facts."

So, I would need an autistic girlfriend to truly appreciate me.

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Peter Wynn
Peter Wynn

Written by Peter Wynn

Diagnosed with autism at 35. Explained a lifetime of difference.

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