Anon gets handed a note

When I was like 18 I brought a girl to my house while my family were away for the weekend. I wasn't intending to do anything with her, I'd just invited her over for some company as we'd be speaking for a couple of months and had already been out a few times together but not exactly on "dates".
Anyway, I ordered some pizza and put on a movie. Next thing I know, she's cuddling into me and I'm stroking her hair. At one point she is laying across my lap gazing up at me.
I didn't fucking kiss her because I'm a damn idiot who couldn't take the hint. She couldn't have made it more obvious that she was waiting for me to make the move. I'm not autistic myself, just a regular moron.
We gradually stopped talking after that night. I blew my chance. Shit still bothers me years later. She was super sweet and pretty. Best girlfriend I never had.
- She blew her chance.
- She blew her chance bro, she should be glad that you're this passive

Did 4 Chan just accidentally use the term "autistic" correctly?
- Anon is highly regarded in his field

What are you doing this weekend
Nothing
... ok
- This is too real, holy shit.
  Edit: Wait a minute, this doesn't necessarily have to mean they want to do something with you.
- Trying to recover what i lost the previous work week and failing (again).

look her up now. she's probably doing not good and it's your fault basically
- Or she's doing fine and has gotten ugly.
  
  4 healthy kids and a different shaped head than before

Come now anon, no permanent harm. Go ask somebody out today to make up for it.
Shots you didn’t take then; Shots you don’t take now.
- no permanent harm
  That’s where you’re wrong, buster 😎
- Something something Wayne Gretzky
  
  You take 100% of the shots that caused your autism

Its great being reminded life is hell haha
- Haha 🥲

So what would you say?
I would assume it was bait. I'd respond something like, "Schrödinger's cat is both alive and dead until you look in the box."
- How's dating life going?
  
  No one has ever turned me down for a date. You?
  
  I just post my dick pic on GROWLER and the dudes invite themselves over.
  Sucks that hetero apps don't work for the str8s.
- Bait for what? Perhaps I am simply old, but why is it so unthinkable that a girl would think you are cute?
  
  In high school I would have people ask me out. If you say yes, what a fucking loser you thought I was serious? If you say no, then you're gay and you should kill yourself. It's funny because you can see the divide in this thread between people fucked up by high school and people who find getting fucked up by high school unthinkable
  
  I would also assume it was bait, some people are assholes and I'd be insecure in a moment like that
  
  Bait for embarrassing the person. It depends on the person and context. I was often teased like this by people in school because I was quite susceptible to emotional manipulation. The note is not asking the person out. The note is asking for a reaction to a hypothetical situation without any commitment to actually asking. The intelligent reply is an equally indecisive hypothetical response saying "if you're uncommitted, so am I, try again" while also protecting from the potential for a trap. Plus if the person does not have the depth to understand the volley, the answer is a solid no.

user is typing a message
And this continues for a whole week as I start writing something then delete it and start over.

This is not a mere greentext.
I feel actual evil. Just why.

I had multiple women tell me they want to fuck in high school and I was so dumb to not get the message. One was basically jumping on my dick. I masturbated to some of these ladies for years until I eventually lost my virginity when I was 24. I hated myself for many years for not getting the message. 😂

I really wish liberals would try and find a way to reach out to these people. I know we just got some random post, but it looks like he is taking responsibility for his stupidity and not blaming the girl in question. There is self awareness there.

"If"? What kind of question is that? You either want to go out or you don't.
I think you dodged a bullet there.
- It's just a way of preventing direct rejection. If I ask you out and you say no, you're rejecting me and I feel bad. If I ask a hypothetical and you say no, you rejected the hypothetical, not me.
  It's stupid, but sometimes that helps people work up the courage.
  
  it's not stupid, it is a shield for the person, it never hurts to have protection.