For decades, autistic people have been described as asexual, emotionally detached, lacking empathy, and incapable of intimacy. These narratives have long pathologized the autistic experience, ignored neurologically different communication, and erased the human longing to be known in our most intimate relationships. Love, Sex, and Autism challenges these misconceptions with this premise: Autistic adults are capable and deserving of love, healthy sex, and intimacy where they feel safe to be themselves.
Written by auDHD clinician Candice Christiansen, this groundbreaking and compassionate book dispels the myths that have long excluded autistic people from conversations about love and sex. Through lived experience, powerful stories,, clinical insight,, and actionable strategies, this book provides a wealth of resources to improve communication, intimacy, and sexual connection for neurologically different couples.
Candice Christiansen, LCMHC, CSAT-S, CMAT, EMDR, IFS, IFIO is an AuDHD, queer clinician and autism specialist with over 20 years of experience working with neurologically different individuals, couples, and families healing from out-of-control sexual behavior, substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and betrayal trauma.
For decades, autistic people have been described as asexual, emotionally detached, lacking empathy, and incapable of intimacy. These narratives have long pathologized the autistic experience, ignored neurologically different communication, and erased the human longing to be known in our most intimate relationships. Love, Sex, and Autism challenges these misconceptions with this premise: Autistic adults are capable and deserving of love, healthy sex, and intimacy where they feel safe to be themselves.
Written by auDHD clinician Candice Christiansen, this groundbreaking and compassionate book dispels the myths that have long excluded autistic people from conversations about love and sex. Through lived experience, powerful stories,, clinical insight,, and actionable strategies, this book provides a wealth of resources to improve communication, intimacy, and sexual connection for neurologically different couples.
Candice Christiansen, LCMHC, CSAT-S, CMAT, EMDR, IFS, IFIO is an AuDHD, queer clinician and autism specialist with over 20 years of experience working with neurologically different individuals, couples, and families healing from out-of-control sexual behavior, substance abuse, intimate partner violence, and betrayal trauma.
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