So last night my husband and I were talking about issues I'm having with one of my friends at the moment....basically I'm avoiding her like the plague because she keeps dumping all her 'problems' on me and I can't handle it and it makes me angry. I pup 'problems' in quotes because she's whining about creepy guys hitting on her when she's giving them an open door on dating websites and she doesn't like he responsibilities of being a mother....anyways....I realized I've had this same reaction to a lot of friends in my past and have ended up accidentally sabotaging the friendships because of how I react to these types of situations. My husband says I lack empathy and I don't know how to put myself in other people's shoes...and he's right. He said he wonders if in addition to my BP I also have some sort of autism spectrum disorder.

He also sited my inability to handle change, the fact I get obsessed over certain things and topics, my being uncomfortable in social situations and a myriad of other things (I won't list everything he pointed out to me...it would make this post very long) as possible indications of some sort of autism. So I wondered....could he be right or are the things I do, and the things I'm unable to to...like empathize with people part of my BP or should I question my Pdoc about possibly having some other type of disorder as well.