Autism isn't a personality, it's a developmental issue. What you're suggesting is like saying to a black guy
who is finding that an issue "Well, don't be black then...". I managed to keep up my act with my wife for the
best part of 20 years, but you're right eventually I started to falter and the real, broken me came to the surface
too many times and I lost everything I cared about. Over two years later I'm still reeling from this loss. It makes
me very, very reluctant to try again. Suddenly finding myself alone so late in life made me physically ill when it all
happened, before the big argument that ended things I was already at a very low ebb and feeling the effects
of depression (again), I had a massive task to be getting on with and obsessing over that to the extent I did made
it impossible to continue with the pretence of being normal as well. Then the argument happened, I said some
very upsetting stuff to my wife and stormed out, never to return to what was my home, my wife and my beloved
dog Grace. We met to talk a few weeks later and she dropped the bomb that would change my life forever and
declared that after 18 years together she wanted out, permanently. I was alone for many many years before meeting
her, she truly was a one in a million and this fvcking condition I've been struggling with all my life was instrumental
in taking her away from me. I kills me to see her all moved on and with a new guy. If only it were as simple as reinventing
myself. I've tried that many times but it doesn't work, sooner or later my Asperger's catches up with me.