7:33am January 27, 2015

Anyone read these books?

The Rosie Project
The Rosie Effect

Both by Graeme Simsion.

Are they as aspie stereotype as they sound?

Are they any good?

(Separate questions. Something can be stereotypical AND good.)

Also would they be potentially triggering to someone who was molested by an aspie as a kid in part because try as he might he could not get any woman to marry him according to the life schedule he set for himself (nor did he at the time understand how degrading it is to women to be considered just a piece of a routine someone set themselves of “marry someone anyone by this age)? (I was his means of retaliating at a world he saw as wronging him by depriving him of a wife and kids.)

And yes I’m autistic. Autistic FAAB or assumed female people (I’m genderless and FAAB) tend to have more sexual experience, but less voluntary, than autistic MAAB or assumed male people. I’ve actually had autistic guys tell me I was lucky to be molested because at least it was sexual, never mind I was 11. Also that I was lucky to have been in a relationship even though it was emotionally and physically abusive and I’m not attracted to men. (Now that he’s grown up though we are on surprisingly good terms. I think neither of us was ready for a relationship and we both did fucked up stuff.)

I will say I feel incredibly lucky for my one relationship with a woman, so many magical memories that if I never meet another woman, nonbinary, or genderless person who wants a relationship, I won’t feel I’ve missed anything.

There’s no sign there’s any child abuse anywhere in these books. The tw tags are for the post not the books. Also I am well aware my situation was rare and not caused by autism (just carried out in an autistic way) I’m not suggesting aspie guys are child molesters. Just trying to figure out whether I should bother reading this, especially given my history. Since even watching aspie guys behave certain ways in their search for love and lust can bring back bad memories

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