My wedding is tomorrow and today I read a depressing statistic about only 5% of autistic people being married. Coupled with those horrible threads about relationships about people with autism, it all seems doom and gloom but I want to hear some happy stories!
So please tell me about your happy relationships, whether the other person is neurotypical or neurodiverse!
My soon to be husband is neurotypical (excellent social skills!) but pretty introverted so we have a quiet home life but he is fab. He supported me through my diagnosis when we were just colleagues and then since we’ve been together he’s always encouraged me to be entirely myself.
He wraps me in a blanket and makes the dinner when I come home from work tired, which allows me to keep doing my dream job and I can verbally stim at him to my heart’s content (he even “talks” back to me in some of my favourite noises now!).
We have utterly ridiculous conversations where I ask something straightforward like “where’s the cat?” And he replies “he’s asleep” and I have to explain that I was actually for the location of said cat, not his current occupation and then we fall about laughing about his very neurotypical interpretation of a simple bloody question and our completely different interpretations of a social scenario.
He’s completely fab and I’m feeling very loved up so please lets share the love!