Fully updated and expanded edition of Maxine Aston’s bestselling guide to having a happy neurodiverse relationship.
Is your other half autistic or do you suspect that they are? This helpful guide provides all the information you need to build a successful and lasting relationship.
Drawing on over twenty-five years’ experience working with autistic neurodiverse couples, Maxine Aston pulls together the latest research, explores key issues such as the double empathy problem and helps you to identify practical steps to deal with common challenges.
Looking in depth at communication, social, intimacy and sensory differences, this much-loved and often-recommended guide is designed to help you and your partner tackle issues so you can lay strong and healthy foundations for your future together.
Is your other half autistic or do you suspect that they are? This helpful guide provides all the information you need to build a successful and lasting relationship.
Drawing on over twenty-five years’ experience working with autistic neurodiverse couples, Maxine Aston pulls together the latest research, explores key issues such as the double empathy problem and helps you to identify practical steps to deal with common challenges.
Looking in depth at communication, social, intimacy and sensory differences, this much-loved and often-recommended guide is designed to help you and your partner tackle issues so you can lay strong and healthy foundations for your future together.
Reviews
Highly recommended! Helpful tips and solutions are gleaned on topics of communication, socializing, empathy, emotional reciprocity and anger. The many positives of the neurodiverse relationship are highlighted. I love how Ms Aston ends on a positive note of 'Celebrating the differences.'
Maxine Aston is one of the most influential authors on couples where one partner is autistic. Her third edition is a timely, compassionate update, integrating new research on double empathy, masking, and neurodiverse communication. She writes with clarity and depth, offering modern, affirming guidance for couples navigating autism together.
Maxine Aston was and is one of my favorite authors in the field of autism spectrum conditions. Her straightforward, conversational writing belies a depth of understanding of the less obvious but completely perplexing parts of the autism spectrum that so many of us struggle with. She inspired me to research and learn, both personally and professionally.
Maxine Aston's work was among the first resources I turned to when I began working with autistic individuals and neurodiverse couples many years ago. This thoroughly updated third edition reflects important advances in autism understanding and remains an invaluable guide for couples seeking lasting, successful, and fulfilling relationships.
This seminal guidebook is up to date with the latest developments in autism and will encourage mutual understanding, compassion and compromise to the benefit of both partners.