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Disability and Illness: Autism Spectrum Disorders

Autism Spectrum Disorders Introduction:
People with Autism Spectrum Disorders often have challenges monitoring themselves socially, leading to an inadvertent disrespecting of others' sexual and intimacy boundaries. There is limited information for people with these types of disorders, including Asperger's Syndrome. Sexualhealth.com shares what it does know about sexuality and ASDs in this channel.

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Answered Disability and Illness - Autism Spectrum Disorders Questions:

How do you teach an adolescent boy with autism and moderate MR to masturbate only in private in his room at home? the child is unable to control his sexual urge and rubs himself against a wall in the ....

I am an older virgin who is bipolar, and may have autism/aspergers. Wanting to know, when I have gotten close to a woman I am attracted to, I dissociate, or blackout. I am out of the present moment; ....

Hello, I am a 23 year old autistic man and I am wondering if sexualty is appropirate for people with this disability. My mother told me that it is highly inapropriate for me to have a intamite relatio ....

I have been in a relationship with a man who I love dearly for 3 years. When we first met it was like we had both found "the right" partners. We were happy for 3/6months. I noticed that my partner was ....

Hello, I am a mentor for a 15 year old young man with the ausburger form of autism. He is a very bright young man. Recently he has become aware of body image and the social aspects of dating and ....

As an autistic person how do you learn emotional intimacy, can you sugest somebody to help

As an autistic person how do you learn emotional intimacy, can you sugest somebody to help

My son is autistic, and 23 years old. He is fairly high functioning. I would best characterize his ability to understand and communicate as binary.....on/off, yes/no, up/down, etc. I have been dire ....

I am in the health care field... I work with a 10 year old autistic boy that has started to fool around with masturbating on himself... Myself and his mother have been worried as far as how we can hel ....

lack of interest and find sex boring

Hi . I have just be told I have adult AS. I was with an absolutely wonderful women for over 3 months and during that time I tried to make love to her.However in most cases I was not able to enter h ....

i have a project to do on people with autism and was just wondering if they get married, how, what their lives are like and what are the chnaces of their kids getting autism?

My son is almost out of autism. he was in local newspapers for our success of the treatment. but nowadays he is in his puberty and very interrested about his sexual organs and girls and want to be t ....

i am currently writing a paper on sexual attitudes and learning disabilities (developmental delay). i am having difficulty finding relevent research material or any informatio on this topic and i wond ....

Melissa, I have been in a long distance relationship with a man 52 y/o and have become aware when I fly to see him that he spends approx 4 hours a day on the net looking up porno and masturbating. He ....

I stumbled upon your bio as a "referral" from an "autism" search. I am 21 years old and have been diagnosed with Aspergers since 1996. I just wanted to say hi and how wonderful it is to see that a ....

I am a gay male and am only recently diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome. I thought being gay was tough. (I "came out" late; at 29). Asperger Syndrome is another situation where I have "known I was di ....

I am enquiring on behalf of a 26 yr old male friend with who is unsure about what women want from men? and initiating relationships.How to know if women find him attractive.

i have a question re. a student in middle school in indiana usa who has low fuctioning autism and who has been critized for expressing his sexuality at school the student is a male 12 -13 years old an ....

I am having a sexual relationship with a 33 year old female and I seem to have premature ejaculation after intercourse. I have been diagonosed with nonverbal learning disability or asperger's syndr ....

I'm a 32-year-old hetero male with Asperger's Syndrome. I've never had a girlfriend (or lover in any sense of the word -- I'm a virgin), and have never really come close to doing so. I just don't ....

I take care of a teen that is autistic, he does not speak or understand a lot of verbals. He is 15 and has recently been going through puberty. He continually has erections throughout the day and hasn ....

I have gradually lost feeling in my genitals. I suffer from depression but I am questioning the fact that I may have Asperger's Syndrome. I have three childern who look to all have the same symptoms ....

My son is a 6 yrs old with asperger's (autism). He use to masturbate until he had ulcerations. He still masturbates excessively. I know this is a form of self stimulation common in autism. But, wha ....

I am in a relationship of two years standing with a man who I think has autism. He is high functioning - lives alone, is financially independent, looks after himself well physically and reads widely. ....

I am the mother of a beautiful 9 yr. old. He was diagnosed with autism at age 5. I knew something was wrong around age 2 when the only word he could say was "alright". The Doctor's told me he was d ....

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I am a SpED teacher working for the first time with a six year old ASD boy. He is delightful and I love to learn with him. My difficulty is in managin ....