 sometimes with autism is it obviously disadvantageous you socially to a really great extent which kind of means you depend on meeting certain types of people and those people don't have to be autistic but they are usually people who aren't completely normal either When you're growing up it's difficult because you're kind of progressing on to that next stage of school or whatever university to get that stability of friends you've got to reach a kind of the end of your teenage years and that's what's difficult I think and if you're not particularly good at making new friends then it's a difficult moment, it's constantly changing so much So in terms of romantic relationships I had my first girlfriend at 17 it was a four month relationship didn't really go well because of my lack of experience and just being new to it which I guess you could attribute more to just being 17