Am autistic, I prefer being alone actually, even romantically. I figured out that being in a relationship is fucking exhausting and you actually have to put forward effort and know how to communicate (genius-level deduction yes). Bonus points if you don't want kids, I've had people try to change my mind as if I haven't been stuck wishing I myself had never existed in the first place.

I witnessed all kinds of marital abuse from a young age, and failed marriages in my family and my family's friends over and over again. Maybe it was being around so much fighting and arguing that made me check out completely. I'd lock myself in my room to be away from family and now I'm basically a hermit. I love cats so I have cats as companions. Am stereotype, oops.