s.e. smith

Two smart, insightful and autistic people who like talking about relationships walk into an interview…

Being surrounded by other autistic people, I find a rare secure place to socialize, one that let me start to discover other places I could be social in, too.

You can read a book. You can read a map. But reading people, that’s difficult in any situation.

Stealthing does not just happen surreptitiously, swiftly, or without the total awareness of the victim.

I will carry the lessons I learned during covid lockdown about freedom as a single person through the rest of my life.

For those of us with chronic pain, living our lives with other people – be that with sex or something else – can be tricky.

Here are some tips on how to seek and obtain consent with nonverbal partners and how to communicate so sex can be safe, satisfying and fun for everyone.

The lack of good dating options can help to compound problems people on the Autism spectrum already have with dating. Lisa Laman has some tips!

If you have chronic pelvic pain, what do you do if you want to get sexual with yourself or someone else? If it starts hurting, should you stop?

Just because you face your own set of specific challenges doesn’t mean you get a free pass to discount the humanity of someone else.