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From a November 16, 2006, post on autistic adults in relationships, a couple of questions and comments from readers: A suggestion about a dating agency—–queries from mothers—-and some comments on those who are dating or married to autistic individuals.
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On leaving the YMCA swimming pool yesterday evening (Charlie jumped in fast and then asked to go on the water slides and I skipped up the steps after him; after his first ride, he was so excited that he turned three somersaults in the water and swam half the length of the pool with […]
I really think of this piece as a love story between a husband and wife, between a mother and a son and between a father and a son.”
Says playwright Stacey Dinner-Levin of her play, Autistic License, which will be performed April 25 and 26 at the Illusion Theater in Minneapolis. More from Dinner-Levin (who has […]
“…….happy endings are possible, even if they’re not quite the endings originally envisaged.”
So an article in today’s Telegraph about love and Asperger’s syndrome describes the relationship between Sarah Hendrickx and Keith Newton. The couple met through internet dating:
……the first stage of their relationship was fiery and fraught. To Sarah, Keith was ‘a puzzle’. He’d […]
Oxytocin is sometimes called the “love hormone”; it is a brain chemical that is associated with pair bonding, between mothers and infants and also between males and females. It seems to play a role in social and repetitive behaviors, and researchers at the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine have found that oxytocin may reduce some […]
“Reinvent date night” proclaims the New York Times (on February 14th, “heart day” no less): Doing something different, exciting and new is, for long-married couples, the “simple prescription for rekindling the romantic love that brought [you] together in the first place.”
Don’t know about you, but “going out,” on a “date” or not is a fairly […]
In anticipation of Valentine’s Day, the February 13th New York Times had an article about romantic relationships that persevere in the face of great differences—-vegetarians/vegans falling for carni/omnivores:
Sharing meals has always been an important courtship ritual and a metaphor for love. But in an age when many people define themselves by what they will eat […]
Early intervention, diagnosis, developmental milestones: A lot of the discussion on this blog focuses on the needs of children, of autistic children, and certainly we parents have a lot to think about in educating our kids with an eye constantly on the future. One often hears regrets about an autistic child “never going to get […]
Theories abound that link some thing—such as mercury in vaccines, as one autism mother notes—to the “onset” of autism in a child. When asked “when did you think your child had autism,” many parents tell a narrative of familiar elements: A child is born, a child develops normally until—one day, and overnight—the child changes drastically. […]
Is it safe to marry an engineer? asks Bioephemera in a post today.
Well…….I didn’t. My husband Jim is a cultural historian at a Jesuit university in New York City; he is completing a project on the longshoremen who worked on the piers of the New York/New Jersey waterfront—on the Irish waterfront. I never got too […]
Autism mother gets on her soapbox.
Written by Kristina Chew, PhD [email] for b5media.
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