Love and Autism | Care2 Causes

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Love and Autism | Care2 Causes

Navigating Love and Autism : The New York Times recently featured an article with this title by Nancy Harmon, about the blooming romance between 19-year-old Jack Robison and Kirsten Lindsmith, both students at the University of Massachusetts campus in Amherst. Robison has Asperger’s Syndrome; his father, John Elder Robison, has written about his own experience living with Asperger’s Syndrome in a memoir, Look Me In the Eye . In the course of her relationship with Jack Robison, Lindsmith, who had been diagnosed with ADHD as an 11-year-old, realized that she was also on the autism spectrum and, after testing, was also diagnosed with Asperger’s Syndrome. Harmon’s article describes the ups and downs of Robison’s and Lindsmith’s relationship, noting how both having Asperger’s Syndrome — characterized by difficulties with social interactions, reading social cues, communication a...

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