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NT parents asking why you dont date
383 upvotes, 35 comments. Yik Yak image post by Anonymous in Neurodivergent. "NT parents asking why you dont date"
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Anonymous 4w

At this point I’ve just accepted I’m gonna be one of those cases where I’m found mummified if my apartment because there was no one in my life to realize it was missing. 🥲

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Anonymous 4w

I feel so lucky to have found my equally weird partner,, hoping it happens for yall too cause idek how I found this woman

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Anonymous 4w

i feel like i have to accept the fact that i’ll never find someone because if i dont, then ill spend forever hating myself

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Anonymous 4w

it’s crazy because one day, you will find someone who is willing and excited to carve out those spaces within themselves that fit just the shape of the pieces that make you, you. and they’ll tell you “i am so lucky to have someone with a mind like yours.”

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Anonymous 4w

I prefer to be alone. Too many bad people. Free range.

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Anonymous 4w

The lack of interest is making me start to question if I’m just aro. Like I adore the idea of dating, and I engage with romance books and even reader fics, but those are all fictional characters. I’ve never looked at a real person who I could see myself spending my life with. I know aro is almost like a spectrum too as there’s varying degrees to it, but I worry that if I were to see myself as aro then I’d feel like a fraud if I ever did find love 😭

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Anonymous 4w

This but then I’m also a trans man who doesn’t really pass who is into women so my Hinge is full of straight women who do not want me because I’m a trans man and my real life is full of people who don’t fully understand me bc of my neurodivergence. Anyway finding love or not isn’t the end of the world and that’s what I’ll keep telling myself

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Anonymous 4w

This but I’m also gay too making it 10x harder 😭

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

If you’re extremely lucky, maybe.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

one day you will be able to appreciate what makes you, you love. there will never be two of you. there will never be a person that meets you and forgets you because of that. we were born different, set apart, and that in and of itself is a gift. 🫂

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

trust me tho i know the hell of frustration it takes to get where i’m at tho and i fully understand. but i promise you it does get better.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

Thank god there won’t be. I wouldn’t wish this life on my worst enemy.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

And trust me: not even my coworkers notice when I’m gone. It’s more “there will never be a person that *doesn’t* forget me because of that”.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

i honestly know how you feel and i can feel it in my bones , i’ve been there. i’m sorry love. DMs are open if you need anything.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

I appreciate it, but just enjoy what I can’t have for me. 🫂 I’m too far gone to get that.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

the first step is not talking like that ever again. words are so powerful and everything you say is being heard by ur subconscious, you become what you believe

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

second step is to let go of every negative belief about yourself, every day is a new day. you would not believe the transformation i had in the past year. i was SEVERELY depressed, i couldnt get out of bed, i got bed sores and my muscles atrophied, and now i have genuine moments where im so overwhelmed with gratitude for the world and for my second chance at life. it is ALWAYS possible i promise. the first step is letting yourswlf believe that. trust

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

and nothing changed in my life except what i believed. in fact id say i have more to be upset about now than back then, it just doesnt bring me down as much as it used to. a big part of it was maybe my frontal lobe developing as i got older, but mainly just the way i let myself think about things. its a long process but just start with being nicer to yourself. i promise it goes a LONG way

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

I FEEL THIS AND SECOND THIS SO HEAVY. and honestly, again, i can feel their pain in my bones. i absolutely DO get it. i genuinely didn’t think id be here long enough to write this post. when you’ve been stuck on that loop for so long and nobody taught you differently, it does feel impossible to get out of it. but there is nothing anyone can say that will ever convince me that their human soul isn’t worthy of being loved. i deeply understand what this person is going through.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

“just start with being nicer to yourself” is honestly the one thing anyone could take away from this discussion and it would change their life.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 4w

If I may add on. Sometimes, being nice to yourself is hard. But it’s easy to be sarcastically mean to yourself. Like if you trip saying “wow I’m so graceful” instead of “I’m so clumsy” cause your subconscious doesn’t get sarcasm, and over time you’ll actually start believing good things abt yourself. Fun brain hack :)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

YES. YES. YES. This is literally what helped me 😭❤️

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

yesss the sarcastic meanness was my first step too!!! and every time i caught myself thinking/saying smth negative about myself i made myself to “reps” of positive things the opposite to cancel it out. so if i said i hate my life, id have to say i LOVE my life 10 times, even if i didnt mean it yet

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Anonymous replying to -> #6 4w

It’s like I’m romanticizing the idea of love

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

I didn’t become what I believed, I became what every human being who interacted with me told me I was, because it was more painful to prove them wrong.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

People like you have a chance. It’s too late for me. Do what I cannot, and run.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

i get it, theres a sort of comfort in talking like that. makes you almost romanticize the pain. but wether you’d like to admit it or not, theres a reason you woke up this morning. youre not hopeless, youre not unloved. part of you has hope, part of you loves yourself deep deep down. its choosing the path if comfort rn but if you feed that part of you instead of the one who wants to be sick, you’d be surprised how good youre capable of feeling

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 4w

The reason I woke up this morning is because my health problems haven’t progressed enough to end my suffering. If you knew my situation, you would understand that I *am* very much indeed as hopeless and unloved as I say I am. I’ve been in therapy since 2012 & made almost every therapist I’ve ever had cry with my story. I’ve been on so many medications that I’ve exhausted the categories SSRIs, SNRIs, Tricyclics, Atypicals, *and* Serotonin Modulators. I am a lost cause in every imaginable way.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 4w

I’m a trans man who doesn’t pass as well. I found a trans woman who somehow sees me as a guy. Finding love isn’t the be all end all of happiness, but there’s definitely still someone out there for you <33

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

you’ve been dealt a rough hand but that doesn’t mean you’re a lost cause

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

i hear you. i get it. but there is nothing you could say or do that could ever convince me that you’re worthless.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

i hear a lot of suffering. i hear a lot of frustration at something you didn’t choose to endure. i hear someone who’s been in the hands of a lot of unfairness and someone who’s somehow survived through things no human was meant to endure, especially not alone. you didn’t ask to feel like this. i know you can’t just snap your fingers and change some thoughts and make it better. but just look at how much beauty one response from you sparked in a whole group of people, dear.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 4w

you have got to be incredibly fucking strong. i don’t mean that lightly. so if you can’t find the strength to think a good thought today, then at least know that i am proud of you. because getting this far, from what you just communicated, is a feat on its own.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 4w

Thank you 🗣️ hoping it finds me soon cause I am tired of living a life of unrequited yearning

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 4w

manifesting you romcom levels of mutual pining and the most sickly sweet relationship <3

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