Returning to AF with a Different Approach

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I really applaud you for taking the effort to improve yourself. It's a hard thing to do for anyone, and doubly hard for people on the spectrum. I'm not autistic, but I'd say I'm just left of autism in many ways and I've had to work extremely hard to make myself a socially engaging person. I also have dated an autistic woman on and off for many years. Which comes with it's own set of struggles

I'd say for the first 25 years of my life I also had no friends. But there it is possible to improve yourself even when change seems frightening, it's just a matter of trial and error, the way one debugs a computer program. I think you've taken some first steps in that regards and I applaud you for it and wish you the best.