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Toft, A. 
ORCID: 0000-0003-3734-2242,
2023.
‘I used to think that everyone else had got a manual about it but I missed out’: navigating intimacies in the lives of young autistic LGBT+ persons.
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Abstract
This article explores intimate relationships in the lives of young people (16-25) who are autistic and LGBT+. Using data collected from 15 participants, including interviews and diaries, the article explores how such relationships work in everyday life and the negotiations that occur. Friendships were highlighted as the most important relationships in the participants lives due to their flexibility and non-reliance on social scripts, unlike more intimate relationships which were leaden with expectation and presumption. However, the stories of the participants suggest that popularised conceptions of friendship are unhelpful and frame their relationships as deficient. There is a call for a more flexible approach to friendship which is inclusive of neurodivergency, and a recognition that existing models are exclusory.
| Item Type: | Working paper | ||||||
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| Description: | Platform: ResearchGate | ||||||
| Creators: | Toft, A. | ||||||
| Date: | 4 August 2023 | ||||||
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| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||
| Record created by: | Laura Ward | ||||||
| Date Added: | 14 Aug 2023 08:28 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2023 08:28 | ||||||
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| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/49544 |
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