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Experience With Boys With Asperger's Ability To Find Love/get Married/have A Family Later In Life?
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My step son is 9 years old and has Aspergers. He is in a mainstream class with an IEP. While my husband and I are constantly focusing now on ways to help him better engage socially,make and keep friends, better handle relationships with us and his siblings, one big question we have is about his future and his ability to find love/get married. Does anyone have any thought on this or experience with their older children with Aspergers (or themselves)? The literature on this is fairly pessamistic… read more

posted October 9, 2012
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A MyAutismTeam Member

My son is 17 and I think about this all the time. He has Aspergers. He developed a relationship with a girl in his therapeutic day school who was also an aspie with a bipolar kicker. They were "boyfriend and girlfriend" from 9th grade until just last month, when she broke up with him. Their relationship was not what most would consider a "normal" teenage relationship, but he liked being able to say he had a girlfriend. They rarely saw each other and maybe talked on the phone once a month.
Going forward, I hope he can find someone- because he is an incredible person. I try not to think about it too much though, it kinda breaks my heart.

posted October 12, 2012
A MyAutismTeam Member

https://www.facebook.com/thautcast?fref=ts

landon (owner moderator of page) is an asbergers person and is willing to do consults. many of hte members of this page are adult aspergians and are wiling to also discus life on the spectrum.

posted October 11, 2012
A MyAutismTeam Member

Weird thing. It is totally possible. My son is autistic, but after years with my husband and not seeing empathy I started to question him. He really didn't know how to have empathy.

In time after visits to pysch. and counselors, they believe he has Aspergers. So I dated him married him and never knew. He self taught himself at a young age to socialize (although at times in an awkward way) He definitely felt safer around men then women. More like a they laugh thing and now I know how to mimic them and make them laugh. With women he would have had to use real social skills.

I honestly just thought it was because I was overly affectionate and talked alot. Until I got sick and he just got up and went to work when he should have stayed home and taken me to the hospital, opened my eyes.

So yes very capable. Make sure he learns how to talk to girls too. So much easier to talk to boys.

posted October 11, 2012
A MyAutismTeam Member

Our best man from our wedding is ASD and he found love and is getting married in the spring. They want a family, so it is possible.

posted October 11, 2012
A MyAutismTeam Member

I worry about this as well. The traits of Aspergers make give and take in relationships very difficult. A good marriage takes great compromise and great communication and putting another person before your self. Most of our Aspergers kids have inflexibility and poor communication. I do not know if those traits subside as the kids get older, but if so, that would help.

posted October 10, 2012

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