Finding love is difficult when your autistic but when your queer it comes with different challenges from not being able to enjoy club life to the prevalence of hookup culture within the queer dating scene it can be increasingly difficult.
Within the queer community there has been a problem with ableism for a while having experienced it myself people have gone from treating me normally to treating me like a child when finding out I’m autistic.
For many autistic (not all) hookup culture is not something we normally want to partake in often wanting to make a connection with someone before getting into bed with them. Now of course this is not saying hookup culture is a bad thing people can enjoy and express there sexuality in anyway they wish this is purely mentioning the issues for queer autistics.
Another issue is that a lot of gay scenes revolve around clubbing or heavily crowded areas of course this can be fun but for some of us this can be over stimulating and cause some real issues and is one of the many reasons we need to campaign for more queer spaces that ain’t clubs or bars.
Now finally this is not intended as a tear down of queer culture more just a conversation about different people that exist within the queer community.
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