Like they say, autism is a spectrum. We're more likely to be alone (including divorced) but we range from grandparents long married to people who've never had a date. (A number of us found out we have AS when our children were diagnosed - it runs in families.)
Suppose you've overcome your symptoms enough (solved basic problems like eye contact, not monologuing about obsessions and learning about personal space, and/or learned some confident manly alpha behavior) and/or your charming quirkiness (old-fashionedness or passion for a particular person - she becomes one of your special interests) attracts somebody ("You're sweet, not like the other guys who just want to hook up"), so you're ahead of the AS curve and like normals are "in a relationship," maybe even married.
Sorry, your problems aren't over.
I forget where I read it but it jibes with my own experience (lost the woman I almost married about four years ago; ouch). You can get that far and lose the girl anyway because... you didn't plan well enough when you were a young adult so you don't make enough money. (Barely good enough to support yourself but not a wife and kids, and all healthy women want a man who can support them even if they make lots of money themselves.) A lot of us are chronically underemployed (finding and keeping a job are very hard if you don't know you have AS); leading/skewing the curve are probably rich engineers (another name for AS: engineer's syndrome), scientists and computer people.
The woman, charmed at first, gets fed up waiting for you to grow up and make some money so she eventually leaves. The old conundrum of how normals see us: "If you're so smart, you can get over this and get a real job," etc. Well, not necessarily even if we know what's wrong.
All I can say is it's a hard problem to solve once you're stuck with it.
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