An Exploration of Why Autistic Adults Are Practicing Consensual Non-Monogamy

• By: Janet Walsh, BPsychSc(Hons) Mark A. Stokes, PhD Healthy Autistic Life Lab at Deakin University School of Psychology
• September 27th, 2022
• actually autistic, asexuality, Fall 2022 Issue, gender identity, non-monogamy, polyamory, relationships, research study, social difficulties
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Autistic people are more likely to report difficulty making and sustaining relationships,1-3 leading to assumptions that they aren’t drawn to socializing, but we now know that autistic people desire and benefit from platonic, romantic, and physical relationships to a similar degree as...