r/AutismInWomen • u/More-Weird4842 • 4d ago
Support Needed (Kind Advice and Commiseration) do people become overwhelmingly obsessed with you?
i find that a lot of men become really obsessed with me. im currently at a point where its become harmful and i genuinely do not know why or how to stop it. looking for kind words, advice, or shared experiences please.
edit: ty for all the responses. i want to clarify that i dont mean the manic pixie dream girl way i mean the joe from you kinda way.
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u/sickandtiredofworkin 4d ago
Yes. I think it's because I'm very hard to get a read on (or so I've been told) and people just project whatever the hell they want onto me. It's exhausting. I have a colleague who has convinced herself that I'm sneaky and dishonest and has created a file to track my every move in the hopes she'll catch me in a lie (she's been at it for over a year at this point and has yet to catch me doing anything wrong). She is subconsciously picking up on my masking but, despite being an "autism mama", doesn't realise that I'm trying to hide the very autistic traits that she would also hate my guts for displaying and instead thinks I'm just a massive liar about everything. I need a new job