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The problem with dating services for autistic people.

Peter
1 month ago
  • Autistic people struggle to form romantic / sexual relationships
  • Autistic men (diagnosed) outnumber autistic women by orders of magnitude
    • It is not practical to attempt to address relationship difficulties in autism by assisting (diagnosed) autistic people in forming connections with each other only.
      A variety of dating ‘clubs’ and even specialist apps have been created to assist autistic people in dating, but they all focus on hooking up autistic people with each other.

In order to hook up autistic people with non-autistic people a service has to either

  1. Be open to both autistic and non autistic people, or
  2. Have access to a pool of neurotypical ‘volunteers.’

In case 1 the question is

  • how can the service provide a dating advantage to autistic people while still attracting neurotypical people to use the service.

In case 2 the question is

  • how can the service attract neurotypical volunteer ‘dates’ in reasonably large numbers without attracting people who would abuse the volunteer role.
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  • 1 month ago

    Asking people to volunteer to date autists sounds wrong.

    And I think people can take advantage on any dating site, not just a autism one

  • 1 month ago in reply to FH

    Yeah, that's weird.  So a NT, decides one day, "you know what, I might have pity on some chick with a disability and date her, ya know just to make her feel human for a short while. You now, just out of charity. I'll even pretend to be into it. " imagine that. It's just silly. That's not how the world works. Yeah, lets all volunteer, make the world a better place.

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  • 1 month ago in reply to FH

    Yeah, that's weird.  So a NT, decides one day, "you know what, I might have pity on some chick with a disability and date her, ya know just to make her feel human for a short while. You now, just out of charity. I'll even pretend to be into it. " imagine that. It's just silly. That's not how the world works. Yeah, lets all volunteer, make the world a better place.

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