 dating autistic people as an autistic person. Both of you tend to prefer direct communication. So a lot of the difficulties that autistic people can have when it comes to social interaction is that we can often find indirect communication quite difficult to understand or quite difficult to understand when we're in highly pressured social environments. Things like facial expressions, tonality, body language, all those types of things have very large impacts in the world of dating in general, but when it comes to autistic people we tend to prefer to talk about things, say things directly, be a little bit more open when it comes to our thoughts and feelings and verbalizing them rather than shifting the way that we say things or the way that we look in order to give things a different meaning.