#0-60

So then the person actually writes in a public place

“I am flirting with you”

So I write in a private place

Yeah I know. Slow your roll. You’ve met me once and read a very small amount of my stuff. I do not know enough about you to even know if we can be friends and definitely don’t like you the same way right now, and to be honest you don’t know enough about me to actually like me. I think you just like the thought of liking me.

And it still kinda destroys them.

Why is pairing up as humans* so fucking emotionally difficult?

*clarification: neurodivergent humans

(It’s not like I didn’t work myself up into a parasocial limerence tizzy the other week, just like this person did with me! But I at least, at my age, noticed I was doing that and reined it in myself…?)

Also, I might add, this person who is gobsmacked and staggered is ten years older than me, according to their posted info.

There’s another person about 15 years younger than me who is clearly into me but is absolutely vigilant about the boundaries I am setting and even repeating them back to me if they propose hanging out in some fashion.

I think I want to date someone younger than me….

But not that much younger than me.