What Will I Look Like In 50 Years App

What stops you from asking a woman you like out on a date?

level 1

I don't even like myself, so I figure she will not like me too.

level 2

Damn this got too real for me.

level 2

Hello depression, good to see you again.

level 2

Yeah, girls leave me numbers at my job occasionally. But they are seeing me in an environment I'm comfortable in, have control over, and general excel at. All sexy things.

But get me outside of work and you'll discover I'm a barely functioning suicidal autist. I don't even own any furniture besides a bed and it took me 3 weeks of trying just to go to the gym once.

level 2

I'm a girl, but same. And if he does like me it's almost worse because then I know he has bad taste

level 2

Yeah that's how it is. And the worst part is it's true. If you don't like yourself you make yourself seem extremely unattracted. I basically sabatoged the only relationship I've ever been in because I hate myself and was convinced they hated me too. Turns out I wasn't half wrong in the end...

level 1

Social stigma, not feeling worth her time, shyness and anxiety, and more recently I've completely given up on the idea that I could ever be in a relationship.

level 2

Yep. All that reduced social contact made me so used to beeing single that I don't really care anymore if I am single or not.

level 2

I feel you. Plus lack of practice, time and money.

level 2

· 20h · edited 7h

I gave up 8 years ago if a woman wants to ask me out though i'll be game but i'm done with doing the chasing and always having to take the lead.

I hate leading unless it's off a cliff to my death below.

It would be nice if i was chased for once and honestly i'd even accept Jason.

***Well reading your replies about which jason has made me laugh so keep going ill answer in about 12 hours depending on how long i sleep.

level 2

Shy and anxiety is the biggest reason for me. It's the only thing I couldn't overcome.

level 2

Social stigma, not feeling worth her time, shyness and anxiety, and more recently I've completely given up on the idea that I could ever be in a relationship.

Yep

level 2

That along with the feeling of not wanting to be perceived as creepy when approaching or asking attempting to begin to engage with them either in person or digitally, is a real fear of mine. Especially in todays day in age, you see many horrible things in the news about how awful men are toward women I don't want that perception even though I'm described as a kind man. As well as the news stories about women falsely accusing people of sexual assault simply because they regret the interaction. That whole business scares me enough to not even engage with them, leaving me with this void, where I want to meet people and find someone but its over shadowed by the reasons above leaving me semi paralyzed preventing me from engaging with them.