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Supporting my wife

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My wife has recently been diagnosed with ASD. I am reading as much as I can online but wondered if anyone can help me with some do's and dont's. I know it is different for everyone but I'm sure there are some standard techniques to help me help her. I would be most grateful for your thoughts. 

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  • ASD is a broad spectrum, but in general, she might need a lot of personal space and time to herself, and that is for her personal health and well being, because things might overwhelm her (like group settings, outdoor hustle and bustle, sounds, bright lights, etc.) and she might need a place to destress from that, and focus on her own personal interests, or else she might get very upset and have a meltdown.

    She might have issues maintaining friendships due to becoming drained by social interactions and needing a lot of recovery and personal time to relax and be by herself, and I would not say that many people would understand this need for personal space to be by yourself, that it might be perceived as ignoring, being uncaring, being unsupportive, absent, and this miscommunication creates a lot of issues. 

    There might be other factors to her ASD as well, and because I don't know how your wife is like, I can't neccessarily give you more information. But you seem caring enough to look things up to try and help her where you can (and if that isn't love, I don't know what is).

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  • ASD is a broad spectrum, but in general, she might need a lot of personal space and time to herself, and that is for her personal health and well being, because things might overwhelm her (like group settings, outdoor hustle and bustle, sounds, bright lights, etc.) and she might need a place to destress from that, and focus on her own personal interests, or else she might get very upset and have a meltdown.

    She might have issues maintaining friendships due to becoming drained by social interactions and needing a lot of recovery and personal time to relax and be by herself, and I would not say that many people would understand this need for personal space to be by yourself, that it might be perceived as ignoring, being uncaring, being unsupportive, absent, and this miscommunication creates a lot of issues. 

    There might be other factors to her ASD as well, and because I don't know how your wife is like, I can't neccessarily give you more information. But you seem caring enough to look things up to try and help her where you can (and if that isn't love, I don't know what is).

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