Great advice on this thread.

I sense you'd like more ongoing help than you can get just in this thread alone.

I'll point you to WrongPlanet, a community of aspies and auties. A great place to observe and to learn. There is even a love and dating forum there where there are many discussions about dating. Should be very helpful to you.

I had a best friend, an aspie, who actually married a woman he met on WrongPlanet, so I know auties can be successful in love.

Your height is not an issue unless you make it one. One of my idols is Michael J. Fox, who was a major teen heartthrob back in the 1980s. He is only 5'4" and the girls loved him. He married the beautiful and smart Tracy Pollen, who is much taller than he is, and they still have a happy marriage to this day. So don't worry about your height.

Or your looks. Danny DeVito is hardly a tall, lean, handsome hunk. "Short, fat and ugly" is what comes to mind--yet I had several women tell me they were ga-ga about him and would marry him in a heartbeat if he wasn't already married. Why? They just loved his personality.

Dating works best if it is a gradual process. And is much easier with women who see you frequently. They are hyper-aware of "stranger danger" and want to feel that you're safe and pleasant to be with.

Dating, flirting, attracting women to you, holding conversations, these are all skills that can be learned. No one is great at it at first. It takes a lot of practice and careful observation.

Dating is usually a gradual process. A girl in your class catches your eye. She keeps looking at you, smiling at you. The next day you wave at her. She waves back. The next few days you exchange a few pleasant words with her, see if you can get her to smile, or laugh. Get her feeling good.

Do that a few times, then you can offer to walk her to her next class, or have a cup of coffee together on break. Some will say no. Some will say yes. See if you can get her feeling good, smiling, laughing, sharing something. If it goes well, say "this was fun. Let's do this again!" and see how she reacts.

During coffee or the walk, if she's smiling and enjoying being with you, after several talks, you can tell her you know little about dating and want to try it. Does she have any advice for you? What's her idea of a great date? This is great conversation starter. And very educational--get a woman's point of view. :)

And that's it. It's like a multi-step mutual screening process. Does she like you? Do you like her? If yes to both, next step, arrange another meeting. Suggest an activity you both would enjoy, brief at first, longer and longer over time; a picnic, playing frisbee in the park, a walk in the woods. Now you're dating.