If you want to be disingenuous by refusing to acknowledge that figures of speech exist on a gradient of semantical properness -- gradations, not black and white -- go ahead. And remember to strike out innumerable other everyday figures of speech such as 'no shit', or 'Damn, I can't win for losing' which transcend their literal meaning but nonetheless have an accepted meaning to large swathes of people. /u/MaxMouseOCX admits himself that he was pushing his own aesthetic opinion of what qualifies …
The only thing I can be sure of here is that you want to believe you are ugly. Whether you actually are ugly remains an unanswered question. How are you sure it's looks? And not some other factor? Money matters, social status matters, charisma matters, but people are always quick to point to an obvious flaw and put all the blame on that. Maybe your Game is no good. You can try asking in /r/AskTRP or /r/TRPGame.
Your comment was totally fine. It's only when some women come in here, insisting that their views carry more weight because they are women, or trying to shame the men, that there's a problem. I'm logging off, g'nite.
His logical error: He saw himself as objectively superior to the fellas getting laid, based on his own subjective standards. He lacked that 'forced cohabitation and cooperation scenario' experience that would have allowed him to empathize with those "douchebags" and "lowlifes" as flesh-and-blood beings with secret struggles and pains of their own. E.g. joining a frat, joining the military, working a regular job, ... Significantly, he had severe narcissistic and psychopathic leanings in addition …
It's really a spectrum, just as there's an autism spectrum based on the behaviors exhibited by the patient. You are correct though that people with social anxiety especially coupled with introversion can display markedly Asperger's-like behaviors. Asperger's is also very similar to High Functioning Autism, which increases the difficulty of diagnosis as well. To quote the Wikipedia article titled 'Diagnosis of Asperger syndrome': Asperger syndrome is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manu…
