- Marshack provides insight into little understood interactions in AS and NT relationships.
- Readers will find stories they may be able to relate to.
- Marshack offers practical advice for coping whether you stay or leave the relationship.
- The book focuses on struggling relationships and not otherwise healthy ones.
- Asperger's perspectives are included, but the focus is on typicals and their recovery.
- The book is written from the perspective of a neurotypical person.
- Life With a Partner or Spouse With Asperger Syndrome is a paperback.
- The book is written in understandable terms for average readers.
- Its message offers hope and practical suggestions for coping with struggling relationships.
This book explores intimate relationships between some people with Asperger syndrome and their neurotypical (NT) partners (who do not have neurological disorders). Marshack shares composite details about the lives of her clients and their efforts to cope with the difficulties the disorder brings to their lives. Marshack points out that not all Asperger and NT marriages and partnerships are struggling more than the average couple. However, many do struggle, in part because of a lack of understanding of the true issue. - - that NTs and Asperger adults perceive and communicate in very different ways.
Marshack points out that every person with Asperger syndrome is different, but there are some common characteristics shared by many people with the disorder that affect relationships with spouses and children. Marshack’s insightful work explores these behaviors and interactions in relationships to bring readers an understanding of how and shy communication and behaviors sometimes cause discord and dysfunction. More importantly, She shares insights that can help NTs and their Asperger mates understand each other and communicate more effectively to begin the healing process.
