Sexual Education and High School Students with ASD - Part 5
Dating and ASD
Just because a person has an Autism Spectrum Disorder does not mean that the cannot have an intimate relationships with someone. It is important to talk to teens and young adults with ASD about what a healthy relationship is.
Living with a disability, chronic illness, or chronic pain doesn't make a person fundamentally sexually different from anyone. But it can mean that those with disabilities have less access to sex information in general or to resources specific to their disability. It is important to discuss what a healthy relationship looks like in specific terms for a person with ASD. This includes things such as appropriate date conversation, boundaries, and respect. It is also important to discuss whan an unhealthy relationship looks like, to help protect the person with ASD from being abused or exploited.
Many young adults and adults with ASD have healthy, loving, intimate relationships. Directly teaching dating and relationship skills can help a person with ASD be involved in such a relationship.
Book of the Week: Autistics' Guide to Dating [ebook] : A Book by Autistics, For Autistics and Those Who Love Them or Who Are In Love With Them / Emilia Murry Ramey and Jody John Ramey. Jessica Kingsley, 2008.
Description: For people on the autism spectrum, dating is often an elusive art form, requiring the very skills in communication and social perception that don't come naturally to them.
Contents:
-- Setting the stage
-- What is dating, courting, and friendship
-- Meeting and greeting
-- Friendship to dating
-- When should you adjust your relationship status
-- Encounters with physical intimacy
-- Conclusions and joint analysis
-- Call to action
-- Moving toward marriage or other types of long-term commitment
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Where: The Quilt Tree/Yarn Branch
Located: 341 E. Benson Blvd #5, Anchorage
Alaska 99503
Date: April 30th, 2013
Time: 6pm-9: 30pm
Supplies: Cascade yarns-Pacific- Colors 12,85,43, & 40
and size 7 knitting needles.
Come just to knit or crochet with fellow yarn-a-holics or
provide support to autism awareness!
Samples and a free pattern of the puzzle piece will be available for reference.
All pieces will be collected at the end of May to create an Autism Awareness Blanket.
This blanket will be auctioned off to raise funds for more free trainings available and
provided statewide by the Alaska Autism Resource Center. If you can't participate in
person then contact the AARC at 907-334-1331 or kfoggie@sesa.org to receive the
pattern then mail in your finished pieces.
Bring your own yarn and supplies or buy supplies at the
Quilt Tree!
Light refreshments will be served.
