They have a stamp for your NYC Neighborhood Passport (https://www.nyctourism.com/worldcup26/the-nyc-neighborhood-passport-world-cup-program/) if you’re looking to collect all twelve! They are CLOSED today and will reopen 6 July.
They have a stamp for your NYC Neighborhood Passport if you’re trying to collect all twelve!
I’m going there for the first time this evening.
I am genuinely clueless about the Bronx; prior to this visit I’ve ever only been to the Bronx once, and that was by Hostos CC.
Democrats registered on campus can vote today
Get me out of here.
I only have two friends, one of them (28F) who’s partnered but is the love of my life and my best friend. I really want to seek out a romantic partner, but there are a few barriers: 1. No one finds an autistic 31 yo man emotionally attractive; 2. I have been traumatized by rejection and don’t want to go through that again; and 3. My eventual partner may have qualms about my friendship with my 28F best friend, and if put in a situation where I have to cut contact with one of them, I could never pick my best friend.
I just wish there was someone out there who I can create memories with.
Original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/AutisticAdults/s/sQaINzEiCs
I got a call last night from my 28F best friend’s 27F roommate, prying for information about what I said to my friend that led her to tears. Having made the resolution to not sexualize any women and out of respect for my best friend and her privacy, I refused to disclose, but then she went on to brag about her own sex life, telling me stories about how she was both sleeping with her own ex-partner while also being shafted by a guy she (affectionately) refers to as “Big D*ck V*c.” She then proceeded to share that the V*c in question had a ten-inch penis and how it was both painful and pleasurable getting shafted by someone with such a long phallus. I should’ve hung up right there and then, but my curiosity got the better of me, so I did not. When the call finally ended, I was only left with confusion, horror, and (I’m ashamed to say) an erection.
I would contact with her, but the only problem is she and my best friend are practically joined at the hip.
How do I interact with a woman who seems only interested in talking about sex and reconcile that with my resolution to never sexualize my best friend (or women in general) again?
I have been dismissed as not an autist because I am extremely friendly and extroverted.
I’m sick of it.
I (31M) have known my best friend (28F) for around 4.5 years at this point. We met in a graduate seminar, and we were in the same academic department. She’s partnered with; I am not. She is the one person who can see through my Asperger’s presentation and understand what I’m trying to convey, whereas others would find me annoying and not want anything to do with me. We have gotten close to the point where we can say “I love you” to each other.
However, with this close friendship, I have developed feelings for her. She’s very happily partnered, and we’re definitely not compatible. Yet, as a 31 yo virgin who has sexual needs, I get very sexually frustrated with her, and I sometimes sexualize her to another neurotypical friend (29M), telling him how down bad I am for her, because I know she doesn’t want to hear this. He has stayed silent, not pushing back, and always emits uncomfortable giggles when I make sexual comments about my best friend.
That was, until she found out.
She found out when she saw a text of mine to my 29M commenting on a photograph of her, saying that “her eyes are pleading for ____ that I cannot give.” The comment was intended to denigrate me more than anything. I was trying to vent about my inability to find a romantic/sexual partner or provide for anyone sexually, and my 29M friend should’ve been the only person who saw that. But my 28F best friend saw it, felt that I was being misogynistic against her, and started crying. As the tears rolled out of her eyes and down her cheeks, I froze, and my heart just sank. It is probably the worst pain I have ever felt in my life to watch her sob because I hurt her.
She demanded an explanation, and I gave her my genuine intentions behind that comment. She understood my intentions, composed herself, forgave me, and moved on. But here I am laying in bed at 4 o’clock in the morning, feeling like absolute garbage.
I am deeply regretful for hurting my best friend. She has done so much for me. We love each other to the point that this friendship didn’t end here (I asked her if she wanted to stop being friends, and she said no). However, my sexual frustration keeps building, and my psychotherapist (70M) has been giving me rather unhelpful advice about it (he is otherwise the best psychotherapist I have ever had). I do not want to make her hurt like this again. But I don’t know what to do. Apparently no one else in my area thinks I’m appealing, because I have been on the dating apps for years and have had zero success. Probably because of both my physical disability and my autism.
What can I do, and what should I do?