Podcast Episode 0080, Season 5, Episode 11; 04 January 2022 Tracee Garner, author of Disability: An Anecdotal Field Guide for the Rest of Us Tracee Garner is a case manager for a nonprofit, a prolific novelist, and a writing coach. She’s also a passionate self-advocate for the disabled. Tracee was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy at…
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I have started and stopped work on a memoir repeatedly since 2007. For the last few weeks, I have been attempting to resurrect the work, in part because readers of this blog, listeners to the podcast, and social media followers continue to ask for such a work. It is doubtful more…
Podcast Episode 0061; Season 04, Episode 25; March 23, 2021 The Autistic Therapist, Kate McNulty, discusses her book Love and Asperger’s. We also discuss gender identity, sexuality, and the challenges faced by autistics in relationships with neurotypical partners. This hour is a frank discussion of some reasons autistics struggle to maintain romantic…
Followers of The Autistic Me blog and podcast send along emails and direct social media messages with topic suggestions and questions. Many of these, I have answered in the past. I try to address private questions when asked, as well. What questions should I be addressing? Which topics are valuable to…
Sorting through messages I receive on Facebook, yet another asked if my wife and I have a normal marriage. This is a question to which I’m expanding the answer in A Spectrum of Relationships (ideally for later this year). Questions about relationships dominate when I address groups and are the…
Podcast 0010; Season 01, Episode 10; May 22, 2018 This week, The Autistic Me Podcast features a discussion about college and dating, as Daniel Sansing and I discuss the challenges autistic young people face trying to establish relationships. We also discuss our experiences. Thankfully, we both found special wives who accept us…
Insecurity is the greatest challenge for me in relationships. I seldom feel confident as a partner, friend, mentor, or coworker. In my marriage, I rarely believe I am as intelligent overall as my wife. I know I am not as emotionally balanced as she is. I know I lack her…
When I talk to groups, the three categories of questions are: school, workplace, and relationship. There are plenty of books and experts on the school issues. Plenty of debates, too. Whatever you want to believe, there’s probably an “expert” with that opinion. As an educator, I have plenty to say…
Visitors have asked why the blog doesn’t deal more with personal issues like romance, marriage, children. There’s not much to “teach” other people. My advice to autistics is to stop trying to please everyone else and find your own social network. In that social network, you might (or might not)…
Over the last few months, I’ve been asked several times about friends. More precisely, the question has been if I have any friends. When I read online comments from autistic (“ASD” and “Aspie”) individuals, many are upset that they have no friends and seem to do everything “wrong” in a…