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…
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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…
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)…