<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0" xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd" xmlns:googleplay="http://www.google.com/schemas/play-podcasts/1.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[Autistic Intimacy & Desire]]></title><description><![CDATA[Explorations of desire, the body, and intimacy from an autistic perspective.]]></description><link>https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com</link><image><url>https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!e1go!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ee51081-9ae3-4bf1-87f0-4873b3cc4b5a_900x900.png</url><title>Autistic Intimacy &amp; Desire</title><link>https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com</link></image><generator>Substack</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 06:42:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/feed" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><copyright><![CDATA[Felipe A. 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Pour certains d&#8217;entre nous, ces r&#232;gles n&#8217;ont jamais &#233;t&#233; pleinement visibles d&#232;s le d&#233;part &#8212; et au moment o&#249; nous avons r&#233;alis&#233; qu&#8217;il existait des r&#232;gles, nous naviguions d&#233;j&#224; sans elles depuis des ann&#233;es.</p><p><em>Autistic Intimacy &amp; Desire</em> part d&#8217;un principe simple : que l&#8217;exp&#233;rience du d&#233;sir, du corps et de l&#8217;intimit&#233; dans l&#8217;autisme ne peut &#234;tre r&#233;duite &#224; l&#8217;adaptation, &#224; la correction ou &#224; une explication venant de l&#8217;ext&#233;rieur. Qu&#8217;il se passe quelque chose &#224; l&#8217;int&#233;rieur qui a rarement eu l&#8217;espace de s&#8217;exprimer.</p><p>Pendant longtemps, le sexe et l&#8217;intimit&#233; dans l&#8217;autisme ont &#233;t&#233; abord&#233;s &#224; travers des cadres cliniques, des mod&#232;les &#233;ducatifs, des programmes d&#8217;ajustement social. Ces perspectives ont leur place. Mais elles partent souvent du principe que le probl&#232;me est celui de la lisibilit&#233; &#8212; que l&#8217;exp&#233;rience autiste doit &#234;tre traduite, rendue compr&#233;hensible, align&#233;e sur une forme reconnaissable.</p><p>Ce qu&#8217;elles manquent, c&#8217;est l&#8217;ambigu&#239;t&#233;. L&#8217;intensit&#233;. La confusion qui coexiste avec une profondeur extraordinaire.</p><p>Cet espace ne s&#8217;int&#233;resse pas &#224; ce projet de traduction. Il s&#8217;int&#233;resse au d&#233;sir autiste selon ses propres termes &#8212; ce qui signifie rester avec ce qui est &#233;trange, inconfortable ou difficile &#224; nommer, plut&#244;t que de le r&#233;soudre en quelque chose de plus simple.</p><p>Ici, le d&#233;sir n&#8217;est pas suppos&#233; &#234;tre clair. Le corps n&#8217;est pas neutre. L&#8217;intimit&#233; n&#8217;est pas une destination pr&#233;d&#233;finie. Ce sont des processus : d&#233;couverts lentement, souvent mal interpr&#233;t&#233;s, n&#233;goci&#233;s avec soin et parfois &#8212; lorsque les conditions sont r&#233;unies &#8212; profond&#233;ment, &#233;tonnamment ressentis.</p><p>Cette publication explorera la r&#233;alit&#233; sensorielle d&#8217;habiter un corps ; la diff&#233;rence entre le d&#233;sir physique et la connexion &#233;motionnelle, et ce qui se produit lorsqu&#8217;ils n&#8217;arrivent pas ensemble ; la difficult&#233; de lire et d&#8217;exprimer des signaux dans un monde qui communique diff&#233;remment de vous ; la tension entre &#234;tre authentique et performer la version de soi que les autres peuvent recevoir ; l&#8217;exp&#233;rience de la solitude, du d&#233;sir et du travail complexe de la tentative de connexion ; et ce que signifie construire de l&#8217;intimit&#233; entre neurotypes &#8212; la friction, la traduction, la gr&#226;ce occasionnelle.</p><p>Non pas comme des id&#233;es abstraites. Comme une exp&#233;rience v&#233;cue et r&#233;fl&#233;chie.</p><p>Parfois, cet espace inclura de la fiction &#8212; non comme une &#233;chappatoire, mais comme un autre registre pour ce qui r&#233;siste &#224; l&#8217;&#233;nonciation directe. Certaines exp&#233;riences ne s&#8217;expliquent pas. Elles ne peuvent qu&#8217;&#234;tre contourn&#233;es, approch&#233;es de biais, rendues en image ou en sc&#232;ne jusqu&#8217;&#224; ce que quelque chose de vrai devienne visible.</p><p>Ce n&#8217;est pas un guide. Il n&#8217;y a ici ni prescriptions, ni cadres pour &#8220;bien faire&#8221;.</p><p>C&#8217;est un espace d&#8217;exploration &#8212; ce qui signifie qu&#8217;il sera parfois incertain, incomplet et non r&#233;solu. Ce n&#8217;est pas un d&#233;faut. C&#8217;est pr&#233;cis&#233;ment le but.</p><p>Parce que le d&#233;sir autiste n&#8217;est pas une variation de quelque chose d&#8217;autre. Ce n&#8217;est ni une version moindre ni plus difficile de la norme. C&#8217;est une autre mani&#232;re d&#8217;habiter un corps, de tendre vers la connexion, de comprendre ce qu&#8217;est m&#234;me l&#8217;intimit&#233;.</p><p>Et cela m&#233;rite d&#8217;&#234;tre pens&#233;, &#233;crit et partag&#233;.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Ce texte existe en plusieurs langues.<br>Choisissez le chemin qui vous convient :</em><br>&#127468;&#127463; <a href="https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/where-desire-has-no-script">English</a> | &#127466;&#127480; <a href="https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/donde-el-deseo-no-tiene-guion">Espa&#241;ol</a></p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/la-ou-le-desir-na-pas-de-scenario/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/la-ou-le-desir-na-pas-de-scenario/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Donde el deseo no tiene guion]]></title><description><![CDATA[Intimidad y Deseo Autista]]></description><link>https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/donde-el-deseo-no-tiene-guion</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/donde-el-deseo-no-tiene-guion</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Felipe A. Martell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:43:49 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!PezX!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F283ef7bf-fb70-43f3-80e6-1139f40b4bc8_1024x1536.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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Para algunos de nosotros, esas reglas nunca fueron del todo visibles desde el principio &#8212; y para cuando nos dimos cuenta de que hab&#237;a reglas en absoluto, ya llev&#225;bamos a&#241;os navegando sin ellas.</p><p><em>Autistic Intimacy &amp; Desire</em> parte de una premisa simple: que la experiencia del deseo, del cuerpo y de la intimidad en el autismo no puede reducirse a adaptaci&#243;n, correcci&#243;n o explicaci&#243;n desde fuera. Que hay algo ocurriendo en el interior a lo que rara vez se le ha dado espacio para hablar.</p><p>Durante mucho tiempo, el sexo y la intimidad en el autismo han sido abordados a trav&#233;s de marcos cl&#237;nicos, modelos educativos, programas de ajuste social. Estas perspectivas tienen su lugar. Pero tienden a partir de la suposici&#243;n de que el problema es la legibilidad &#8212; que la experiencia autista necesita ser traducida, hecha comprensible, alineada con una forma reconocible.</p><p>Lo que pasan por alto es la ambig&#252;edad. La intensidad. La confusi&#243;n que coexiste con una profundidad extraordinaria.</p><p>Este espacio no est&#225; interesado en ese proyecto de traducci&#243;n. Est&#225; interesado en el deseo autista en sus propios t&#233;rminos &#8212; lo que significa sentarse con aquello que es extra&#241;o, inc&#243;modo o dif&#237;cil de nombrar, en lugar de resolverlo en algo m&#225;s f&#225;cil.</p><p>Aqu&#237;, no se asume que el deseo sea claro. El cuerpo no es neutral. La intimidad no es un destino predefinido. Son procesos: descubiertos lentamente, malinterpretados con frecuencia, negociados con cuidado y, a veces &#8212; cuando las condiciones son las adecuadas &#8212; profundamente, sorprendentemente sentidos.</p><p>Esta publicaci&#243;n explorar&#225; la realidad sensorial de habitar un cuerpo; la diferencia entre el deseo f&#237;sico y la conexi&#243;n emocional, y lo que ocurre cuando no llegan juntos; la dificultad de leer y expresar se&#241;ales en un mundo que se comunica de forma distinta a la tuya; la tensi&#243;n entre ser aut&#233;ntico y representar la versi&#243;n de ti mismo que otros pueden recibir; la experiencia de la soledad, el anhelo y el complejo trabajo del intento de conexi&#243;n; y lo que significa construir intimidad entre neurotipos &#8212; la fricci&#243;n, la traducci&#243;n, la gracia ocasional.</p><p>No como ideas abstractas. Como experiencia vivida y reflexionada.</p><p>Ocasionalmente, este espacio incluir&#225; ficci&#243;n &#8212; no como escape, sino como otro registro para aquello que resiste la expresi&#243;n directa. Algunas experiencias no se explican a s&#237; mismas. Solo pueden rodearse, abordarse de lado, representarse en imagen o escena hasta que algo verdadero se vuelve visible.</p><p>Esto no es una gu&#237;a. Aqu&#237; no hay prescripciones, ni marcos para hacerlo &#8220;bien&#8221;.</p><p>Es un espacio para la exploraci&#243;n &#8212; lo que significa que a veces ser&#225; incierto, incompleto y sin resolver. Eso no es un defecto. Ese es el punto.</p><p>Porque el deseo autista no es una variaci&#243;n de otra cosa. No es una versi&#243;n menor ni m&#225;s dif&#237;cil de la norma. Es otra forma de habitar un cuerpo, de tender hacia la conexi&#243;n, de entender incluso qu&#233; es la intimidad.</p><p>Y merece ser pensado, escrito y compartido.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>Este texto existe en m&#225;s de un idioma.<br>Elige el camino que se sienta adecuado para ti:</em><br>&#127468;&#127463; <a href="https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/where-desire-has-no-script">English</a> | &#127467;&#127479; <a href="https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/la-ou-le-desir-na-pas-de-scenario">Fran&#231;ais</a></p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/donde-el-deseo-no-tiene-guion/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/donde-el-deseo-no-tiene-guion/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where Desire Has No Script]]></title><description><![CDATA[Autistic Intimacy and Desire]]></description><link>https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/where-desire-has-no-script</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/where-desire-has-no-script</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Felipe A. Martell]]></dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 05:38:43 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!IVdG!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fd3201fc3-8513-49fa-aa18-0783eac7ae46_1024x1536.png" length="0" type="image/jpeg"/><content:encoded><![CDATA[<p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/subscribe?&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Subscribe now&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/subscribe?"><span>Subscribe now</span></a></p><div class="captioned-image-container"><figure><a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" target="_blank" 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For some of us, those rules were never fully visible to begin with &#8212; and by the time we realized there were rules at all, we had already been navigating without them for years.</p><p><em>Autistic Intimacy &amp; Desire</em> begins from a simple premise: that the experience of desire, the body, and intimacy in autism cannot be reduced to adaptation, correction, or explanation from the outside. That there is something happening on the inside that has rarely been given space to speak.</p><p>For a long time, sex and intimacy in autism have been approached through clinical frameworks, educational models, social adjustment programs. These perspectives have their place. But they tend to start from the assumption that the problem is legibility &#8212; that autistic experience needs to be translated, made comprehensible, brought in line with a recognizable shape.</p><p>What they miss is the ambiguity. The intensity. The confusion that coexists with extraordinary depth.</p><p>This space is not interested in that translation project. It is interested in autistic desire on its own terms &#8212; which means sitting with what is strange, uncomfortable, or hard to name, rather than resolving it into something easier.</p><p>Here, desire is not assumed to be clear. The body is not neutral. Intimacy is not a predefined destination. They are processes: discovered slowly, misread often, negotiated with care, and sometimes &#8212; when conditions are right &#8212; deeply, surprisingly felt.</p><p>This publication will explore the sensory reality of living in a body; the difference between physical desire and emotional connection, and what happens when they don&#8217;t arrive together; the difficulty of reading and expressing signals in a world that communicates differently than you do; the tension between being authentic and performing the version of yourself that others can receive; the experience of solitude, longing, and the complicated work of attempted connection; and what it means to build intimacy across neurotypes &#8212; the friction, the translation, the occasional grace.</p><p>Not as abstract ideas. As lived and reflected experience.</p><p>Occasionally, this space will include fiction &#8212; not as escape, but as another register for what resists direct statement. Some experiences don&#8217;t explain themselves. They can only be circled, approached sideways, rendered in image or scene until something true becomes visible.</p><p>This is not a guide. There are no prescriptions here, no frameworks for doing it right.</p><p>It is a space for exploration &#8212; which means it will sometimes be uncertain, incomplete, and unresolved. That is not a flaw. That is the point.</p><p>Because autistic desire is not a variation of something else. It is not a lesser or more difficult version of the norm. It is another way of inhabiting a body, of reaching toward connection, of understanding what intimacy even is.</p><p>It deserves to be thought, written, and shared.</p><div><hr></div><p><em>This text exists in more than one language.<br>Choose the path that feels right to you:</em><br>&#127466;&#127480; <a href="https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/donde-el-deseo-no-tiene-guion">Espa&#241;ol</a> | &#127467;&#127479; <a href="https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/la-ou-le-desir-na-pas-de-scenario">Fran&#231;ais</a></p><div><hr></div><p class="button-wrapper" data-attrs="{&quot;url&quot;:&quot;https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/where-desire-has-no-script/comments&quot;,&quot;text&quot;:&quot;Leave a comment&quot;,&quot;action&quot;:null,&quot;class&quot;:null}" data-component-name="ButtonCreateButton"><a class="button primary" href="https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/where-desire-has-no-script/comments"><span>Leave a comment</span></a></p><p></p>]]></content:encoded></item><item><title><![CDATA[空虚]]></title><description><![CDATA[Autistic Intimacy & Desire]]></description><link>https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/coming-soon</link><guid isPermaLink="false">https://autisticintimacyanddesire.substack.com/p/coming-soon</guid><dc:creator><![CDATA[Felipe A. 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