My son has Asperger’s, hard enough to date with that diagnosis. He also has MS both are not attractive when your looking for a life partner.
He has exhausted different dating sites, once both Asperger’s & MS are mentioned they can not run fast enough. He feels he wants to be honest at start, is this where he is going wrong ? If they get to the meeting stage, when he turns up they will see by his walking something is wrong.
He is seriously thinking he’s going to have to use the services of a match maker, but would that even work ?
He doesn’t drink, doesn’t do the usual stuff pubs/clubs so am struggling to suggest best way to meet someone. Thank you for reading
Being upfront isn’t wrong, but yeah, people can be shallow and miss the bigger picture. A matchmaker could work if they’re good at finding people who value more than surface stuff
It’s probably not worth coercing the dating issue. If it happens it happens and if not, it might still happen when you least expect.
If I did go on a date, it’s a good idea to go to a venue with disabled access.
Gosh! That’s a difficult one. Another way of looking at the question is ‘what does your son want’? Just some dates or a life partner? Without knowing much at all about Asperger’s i am thinking that condition is the main barrier to dating and must make it very difficult to sustain even a short relationship.
If your son is looking just for dates without a long terms relationship then , in terms of the opportunity for dates has he joined a local MS group - such groups have social gatherings etc. but a lots of communication is online.
MS isn’t necessarily a problem to dating . 20 years ago I had a girlfriend, two years later I had my MS diagnosis, my girlfriend was with me at the diagnosis, this spring we celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary .
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