I'm Gstic (Gay and Autistic)
Contents:
- THE CHALLENGE OF BEG GAY AND AUTISTIC
- GAY, LBIAN, AND GENR NONNFORMG INDIVIDUALS WH AUTISM
- I, A GAY AUTISTIC MAN, AM SHARG 5 THGS ABOUT MY INTERSECTNAL INTY
- I'M GSTIC (GAY AND AUTISTIC)
- GAY TISTICS EXIST, AND WE NEED A NAME
THE CHALLENGE OF BEG GAY AND AUTISTIC
Jonathan Post discs beg gay, tistic and missg social cu which leads to difficulty fdg relatnships. * gay and autism *
A higher percentage of tistic people intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer (LGBTQ) than the general populatn, acrdg to rearch studi.
GAY, LBIAN, AND GENR NONNFORMG INDIVIDUALS WH AUTISM
Louis Molnar wants the world to know that, jt like beg gay, beg tistic is nothg to be ashamed of. * gay and autism *
Studi vary wily on the percentage of people wh tism who are gay, lbian, or bisexual. Jt, who did not want his last name ed, disvered high school that he was both tistic and gay.
I, A GAY AUTISTIC MAN, AM SHARG 5 THGS ABOUT MY INTERSECTNAL INTY
* gay and autism *
“I knew what beg gay was, but I personally lacked the emotnal self-awarens for a while until I realized that’s what I was feelg toward other guys, ” he explas. “I wasn’t openly gay high school bee I spected very strongly I would be attacked, ” he says. High school stunts found that those who are gay, lbian, and bisexual are almost twice as likely to be bullied at school and onle as heterosexual stunts are.
Shortly after high school, Smh me out to her fay as a gay man. The group wh ASD reported higher rat of homosexualy, bisexualy and asexualy, but lower rat of heterosexualy.
I'M GSTIC (GAY AND AUTISTIC)
Rearch suggts that dividuals wh Autism Spectm Disorr (ASD) report creased homosexualy, bisexualy, and asexualy, but creased heterosexualy. He said rather exasperatedly, “If you aren’t gay, nobody is! I often wonr what would have happened if we had unrstood each other, but havg tism spectm disorr I have missed a lot of relatnship opportuni bee of my abily to rrectly terpret nonverbal social n be a problem for anybody who has tism, but ’s pecially tough when to those of who are gay, bi, lbian and trans.
Compound this wh the stigma beg gay has our culture, and you have a suatn where beg gay and tistic n feel very lonely — like a pilatn of missed opportuni to fd a tried so hard he even mooned me once ont of other guys, but at that time was hopels. We e culturally accepted terms such as Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, together wh “LGBT+” when referrg to sexual orientatn, and transgenr men and transgenr women when referrg to femal assigned at birth wh a male genr inty and mal assigned at birth wh a female genr inty rpectively. 5%; Dewter et al., 2017)., Sexual diversy should be addrsed sexualy tn and supported by tors and profsnals sce LGBT+ intifyg dividuals report more mental health issu (Gee & Stok, 2018c), possibly due to mory strs, stigma or homophobia prent society.
Compared to non-tistic peers, tistic women have higher rat of homosexualy and bisexualy (Gee & Stok, 2018b; Pera et al., 2020), wh bisexual attractn reported up to four tim more equently (Bejerot & Eriksson, 2014).
GAY TISTICS EXIST, AND WE NEED A NAME
Practice parameter on gay, lbian, or bisexual sexual orientatn, genr variance, and genr disrdance children and adolcents. Gay, Lbian, and Genr Nonnformg Individuals wh Autism.
But I'm not referrg to beg gay -- y, I'm gay -- but my story is also about a send, simultaneo closet: I was 40, a lifelong iend, who is cintally a psychotherapist, suggted I might be tistic. This is the pot where I learned the parallels of my experience as a gay man and that of beg 1973, the year I was born, the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn voted to remove homosexualy om s list of mental illns.