With a lot of typical counseling, we would mimic each other. I don’t know anything about motorbikes at all, but what I would do is that in my office, I’ll put a motorbike magazine down, or I’ll put something in the environment that would give us a connection. Rodgers spoke about those particular challenges, her techniques for confronting them and what parents can do to support children who are ready to find the one.Ĭan you describe your approach to counseling people who are on the autism spectrum and want to begin dating?īefore somebody comes to see me, I might find out that they’re really, really into motorbikes. In the interview below, which has been edited, Ms. But there’s just some innate difficulties that autistic people have in this area.” (She has a forthcoming book on the subject, which will be published by Little Brown Spark.) Being autistic is not different from the rest of us in that way. We all know that we spend hours prior to going out grooming ourselves. “We all know how complex it is, how nerve-racking. “We all know the anxiety of first dates,” she said. “Or I’ve got somebody saying, ‘How dare you say that to so and so?’ I’m like, ‘That was 30 seconds of our conversation.’” “People say, ‘Gee, you did so well in three minutes,’” Ms. Her concerns were assuaged when she realized she’d have hours to work with each client, though the time seems much shorter once the taped material is edited. “I hold my job to a really high standard, and I really believe in developing a genuine relationship with the people that I work with.” Rodgers said over Zoom from her home in Alstonville, on the east coast of Australia. “Originally I said that there’s no way that I’m going to be filmed doing my work on television because it’s very vulnerable,” Ms. A sexologist and counselor who specializes in autism spectrum disorder, she was reluctant to appear in the series, where her private work helping people navigate the challenges of dating would be made into entertainment. When the producers of the Netflix show “Love on the Spectrum” first asked Jodi Rodgers to join, she turned them down.
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