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The relationships and intimacy strategy thread

Peter

The purpose of this thread

Most autistic people seem to have issues with their love lives and forming romantic relationships. But most of us seem to really want it. So why don't we pool our knowledge?

This is a place to share what has and hasn't worked for you when it comes to finding sex and or love. Happy married? Tell us how it happened. Did your pick up line crash and burn? Tell us here.

This is the place to brainstorm on how to help autistic people improve their love lives whether that's a one night stand or finding the one and only love of their lives.

What is this thread not!

This is not a looking for a date thread.

This is not the place to moan about how afully hard dating is etc. Productive discussion please. Even if that's just learning from others mistakes.

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  • 8.  Intimacy.

    When you think about all our anxieties and sensitivities, getting into a physical relationship can be a pretty huge bridge to cross.

    I've spent a large part of my life single, living alone, without a partner and I was happy.

    I've missed out on relationships too ie saying no when I wanted to say yes, or just realising afterwards that the other person was actually interested in me etc.

    I had vaginismus which I only overcame in my early 30s with the assistance of a pretty wonderful sexual psychologist.

    I now believe that this was very tied into my autism.

    I've heard young women talk in the past about s*xual relationships (with men - NTs most probably) in a way that has amazed me and also about their own attractiveness and ability to 'control' s*xual relations.

    One night stands!

    This is all way out of my remit.

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  • 8.  Intimacy.

    When you think about all our anxieties and sensitivities, getting into a physical relationship can be a pretty huge bridge to cross.

    I've spent a large part of my life single, living alone, without a partner and I was happy.

    I've missed out on relationships too ie saying no when I wanted to say yes, or just realising afterwards that the other person was actually interested in me etc.

    I had vaginismus which I only overcame in my early 30s with the assistance of a pretty wonderful sexual psychologist.

    I now believe that this was very tied into my autism.

    I've heard young women talk in the past about s*xual relationships (with men - NTs most probably) in a way that has amazed me and also about their own attractiveness and ability to 'control' s*xual relations.

    One night stands!

    This is all way out of my remit.

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