I fear you misinterpreted my response. I wasn't defending the position of the OP in my response. Mentioning that 'I have been X' was actually me referencing more that I understand how much this is going to hurt him and how much it sucks to be him in this situation because I too have been ditched for the 'superior' model on more than one occasion. Whether that be for looks or for the fact that they don't have so many 'annoying' habits (aka Autism traits) like I do. That's also how I interpreted phaset's response, though I may be wrong.

The advice I gave was to try and spare X more long term pain than what I have been dealt by similar situations in the past where people weren't just honest with me that they weren't interested and lead me on to make me think that I actually had a chance which left me feeling like an idiot and made me more ashamed of who I am as a person. It was degrading and I was trying to give advice which would spare X that similar pain.

I'm sorry you misinterpreted that, I feel no malice towards you for calling me out on it though as I understand how it could be misconstrued especially since this is no doubt a very sore subject for a lot of us with ASDs.