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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

    You know one reason I bring this up is the IRL dating services for autistic people seem to be shuting down. There were never that many but the few that were seem to be cutting the dating aspect of their service out of their list of activities. [link removed by moderator] for example use to describe itself as a frendship and relationship service but hasn't offered any dating services for years and now describes itself as a frendship service. There are a few services in the south and in scotland but even these cover fairly small geographic areas.

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  • 1 month ago

    You know one reason I bring this up is the IRL dating services for autistic people seem to be shuting down. There were never that many but the few that were seem to be cutting the dating aspect of their service out of their list of activities. [link removed by moderator] for example use to describe itself as a frendship and relationship service but hasn't offered any dating services for years and now describes itself as a frendship service. There are a few services in the south and in scotland but even these cover fairly small geographic areas.

    Edited by moderator

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