Published on 12, July, 2020
I'm an autistic adult that is only partially verbal/cannot hold a job due to my autism and I have experienced a lot of infantilization as a result. It's affected me to the extent that I've begun to feel ashamed of having a sexual identity at all, and subconsciously comparing it to sexualizing a child. It's affecting my ability to be intimate with my partner. Does anyone else feel this way? How have you managed it?
Were you abused as a child? I was. And I have a lot of fear and trepidation about sex.
One other question, do you identify with the child in you? Or do you identify with a perpetrator?