Published on 12, July, 2020
What are the rules around that?
I think a lot of “adult” topics are really relevant for people with autism and would be good for many people to discuss. I would like the opportunity sometimes to talk about more adult subjects. I find other people’s perspectives really interesting and adult topics can be discussed in a way that is not offensive nor graphic. I’d be really interested to talk about someone’s experience with prostitutes. I fully appreciate other people wouldn’t. So maybe just a warning in the title of the thread would prevent people from reading the information if they didn’t like that kind of thing?
Sex and intimacy can be a bloody hard emotive subject for people who struggle with sensory overload, lack of control, touch, letting go, change in routine, reading other people’s emotions etc! It’s a nightmare!
sex and intimacy can be none existent for people with autism lol
This reminds me of an aspect of traditional Catholic Social Teaching on this topic growing up in Rural Ireland in the 70’s and 80’s was that especially if someone had any sort of health condition or disability (including mental health) that it was deemed best to stay away from anything that strayed away from Traditional Catholic “Faith and Morals” which was deemed as inappropriate and which would earn you a good hard “clip across the ear” from the Nuns along with a firm command to “cop yourself on” and further enforced by the teachers, headmaster, local police and local Parish Priest, to which you would be dragged up to the priests house “by the scruff of the neck” to recieve a stern talking to - looking at modern society today and looking back then, we need to return to those times as after many decades they have been proven correct as it would prevent so many social problems that we have today