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Archive Home > 2012 > January > 01 > DATING is filled with pitfalls on the AUTISM SPECTRUM

DATING is filled with pitfalls on the AUTISM SPECTRUM

• Diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, two teens make their way through the murky world of love

By Amy Harmon / The Bulletin
January 1, 2012

GREENFIELD, Mass. —

The first night they slept entwined on his futon, Jack Robison, 19, who had since childhood thought of himself as “not like the other humans,” regarded Kirsten Lindsmith with undisguised tenderness.

She was the only girl to have ever asked questions about his obsessive....

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