When Eros Meets Autos: Marriage to Someone with Asperger Syndrome Paperback – August 21, 2023

Is your marriage taking a toll on your physical and/or mental health? Are you feeling isolated, gaslighted, confused, or afraid of your spouse? Have you become a shadow of the person you used to be? Frustrated by therapists who just don't get it? When Eros Meets Autos explains why. Intimate stories shared by women married to men formally diagnosed with Asperger syndrome prove that you are not alone, and show that YOU are the expert who best understands your situation, although you are rarely heard. No compromise is made here to minimize the destructive realities revealed by those who experience first-hand what most people never see or imagine. Due to adaptive skills that dissimulate Asperger syndrome in public, your experience as the partner of someone with Asperger syndrome remains unrecognized even by therapists, resulting in misdiagnoses and medicating the messenger—you, the non-autistic partner.Suggested therapies are presented separately for each partner. Special mention is made of the real problems of couples therapy you likely have already endured. A complete Rench Asperger Syndrome Social Profile (RASSP™) inventory checklist is included to help you document and communicate your unique concerns to professionals.Grounded in philosopher Edith Stein’s premise that it is love that best comprehends love, this book opens eyes and hearts to a reality that no one could have imagined before marriage. Read more