The chart was compiled by a widely experienced retired educator with post graduate qualifications who has been in an almost three decade long marriage to a man diagnosed with High functioning autism (Asperger’s syndrome) by Professor Tony Attwood in 2005. The author has facilitated a support website for neurotypical spouses/partners for several years. The chart was compiled in collaboration with other facilitators of international NT support groups. These facilitators together have over eighty years’ combined experience of living with a spouse on the autism spectrum. They have also heard from many tens of thousands of adult NTs living in marriages and relationships with someone with Asperger’s/Hfa. The value of the quantity and quality taken together, of that experience of being in contact with so many NTs, cannot be ignored. The chart is also based on numerous neuro scientific research/investigations, along with results of other research into the circumstances of our situation conducted over many years.

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Researchers of neurotypical experiences:

Dr Lisa Abel, Dr Cathryn Rench, Jennifer Bostock-Ling, EC McNeil, R. Doley, Kim L Bolling, Professor Tony Attwood, Maxine Aston

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Support websites

www.theneurotypical.com www.faaas.org www.aspergerpartner.com

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References:

Based on the work of educational theorists

1. Piaget’s Stages of Development
2. Bloom’s cognitive/affective learning and taxonomy of higher order thinking skills 3. Kohlberg’s development of empathy stages

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Other references:

Goleman, D, Emotional Intelligence

Kourkoulou A, Leekam SR, Findlay JM Implicit learning of local context in autism spectrum disorder

Vermeulen, Peter PhD Autism: From Mind Blindness to Context Blindness Autism Asperger’s Digest | November/December 2011

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Neuro science research:

1. Pierce ... brain response to personally familiar faces in autism: ... -
2. Autonomic and brain responses associated with empathy deficits in autism spectrum disorder. Gu X, Eilam-Stock T, Zhou T, Anagnostou E, Kolevzon A, Soorya

L, Hof PR, Friston KJ, Fan J

3. how people with autism experience pain Society for neuroscience https://spectrumnews.org/.../in-autism-brain-responses-to-pain-dont-matc...
4. Perspective-Tracking Brain Response Could Help Identify Children with Autism
www.psychologicalscience.org/.../perspective-tracking-brain-response-co...
5. Charting the typical and atypical development of the social brain KA Pelphrey, EJ Carter - Development and psychopathology, 2008 - Cambridge Univ Press

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