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[vent] My annual feeling of extreme loneliness due to lack of romantic relationships and my absolute hopelessness of getting one have begun (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world to c/autism@lemmy.world
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At the age of 34, being extremely socially reclusive, and being autistic myself, I don't really think I have any chance of getting a relationship. I also have issues with staying attached to neurotypical/non-autistic people, people that drink alcohol regularly (I was raised by an alcoholic grandmother, you probably can put the two together), also I'm disabled in other ways too, etc.

A lot of people often like to say "ace/aro/demi people just too disappointed/have too high standards". Here I am being so disappointed and probably having way too high standards, yet I still vow for a romantic relationship, and thus often feel lonely from it.

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[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Oh, don't even get me started on P2P distributed apps. That shit is so fucking cash but I can never convince anyone to use them. >_<

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

What apps did you try to establish?

I spend some time once comparing distributed / decentralized Chatapps (so not P2P, as this would be too inefficient). I got some friends to help me trying the stability of group chats. They helped me, even with enough implied eye-rolling, that I could have generated electricity from them :D

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Mostly Retroshare, because the P2P and friend-of-a-friend onion routing are really compelling features.

[–] green_copper@kbin.earth 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Looks interesting. Could be useful for local networks during disasters or private organization.

[–] knightly@pawb.social 2 points 10 months ago

It seems like it'd be a great space for niche and even moderately sized communities too, but it's never going to catch on. XD