re: #18 ProBosniaLiberal

After a weekend full of engagements and marriages from friends around me, I realize I am in trouble.

Because of the conversion, am I ever going to be married? I feel that, being a convert, I will never become a true insider, even though I believe with all my heart. How does courtship even work, really, cause I’ve never gotten good directions.

I get the feeling I am at a massive social disadvantage, which, combined with my Autism, put me in an impossible disadvantage.

I’m an atheist who has autism. I got married. In fact I’ve been married for 36 years and have two kids, one also has autism. She has two kids, the oldest — 16 years old has high functioning autism, the other is too young to know for sure if he has autism.

It isn’t a death sentence, it doesn’t stop you from developing relationships, and it doesn’t put you in an impossible disadvantage.