Hi, It's me again. So I broke up with my Aspie boyfriend a month ago (we only dated for a few months and in the first month of dating he would say that he thinks he found the perfect woman and was even talking about marriage and wanting kids; way too fast in my opinion) and last week he said he was fine (after a few weeks of no talking) and is open to be friends. However, he has not returned a text in the last week which makes me believe that either 1) he is not really open to be friends or 2) is still hurt about the breakup and is not quite ready to be friends yet. While we dated, he had NO PROBLEM telling me exactly what he was thinking and was usually way too direct about it and would come off as rude or very insensitive at times. I've asked him very directly(via. text because he doesn't talk on the phone) if he does not want anymore contact with me and yet, he has still not replied back to me. I read that Aspies will shut down...his friend who introduced us said that he's been especially quiet at work and hasn't talked to him much. Is he in 'shut down' mode or is he just completing shutting me out? I still care for him and do not want to end things on a bad note and truly do want to be friends. Can an Aspie please give me any insight on what could be going through his mind? I don't want to keep pestering him if he is shutting me out. It just makes me more angry and hurt that he's not responding to me.