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Why Does Nobody Flirt with Me? How Do I Deal with Social Anxiety?

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This piece was originally published on March 15, 2023. (I am currently in the process of migrating all my old Medium pieces to Substack.) Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist. You can submit questions or suggest future entries in the series via my Tumblr ask box, linked here. This week, I’ll actually be addressing two different questions that I think originate from the very same place: the tendency of many Autistic & otherwise marginalized folks to downplay what we want, and fixate excessively on the impressions of other people. Our first letter comes from a lesbian in her early twenties, who wonders why nobody has ever flirted with her or kissed her: Thank you for your question, Anon. Yours is a problem that I have heard many queer people describe having, particularly women who are attracted to women, pa

Why Does Nobody Flirt with Me? How Do I Deal with Social Anxiety? Autistic Advice #9 Devon Oct 03, 2023 64 5 Share Try looking outward with agency. Photo by Marina Vitale on Unsplash This piece was originally published on March 15, 2023. (I am currently in the process of migrating all my old Medium pieces to Substack.) Welcome back to Autistic Advice, a semi-regular advice column where I respond to reader questions about neurodiversity, accessibility, disability justice, and self-advocacy from my perspective as an Autistic psychologist. You can submit questions or suggest future entries in the

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