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15 Feb 2008, 10:44 am

Autistic and adored: Couple’s dating guide tackles social challenges (The Columbian)

Friday, February 15, 2008
By Erin Middlewood, Columbian Staff Writer

Emilia Murry Ramey and Jody John Ramey met through a mutual friend. They soon discovered they had more in common than their friend. Both were students at Portland State University. And both have autism.

The Vancouver couple are among the estimated 1.5 million Americans living with the effects of some degree of autism.

Specifically, Emilia and Jody both have Asperger’s Disorder, marked by social awkwardness and a lack of understanding of conventional social rules.

As if dating weren’t hard enough.

“I hadn’t had any dating experience before meeting her,” said Jody, 35.

“I used to say I had more jobs than dates,” joked Emilia, 33.

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15 Feb 2008, 3:49 pm

Good for them.

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16 Feb 2008, 4:47 am

I wish them luck for their relationship and to more success

I love articles like that...ones that don't view autism as something that needs to be "cured" or is a "defect".

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16 Feb 2008, 5:35 am

Thanks for the post MrMark...

might have to have a look at that book in the not too distant future.

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16 Feb 2008, 5:23 pm

Autism Every Date topic

I hope Autism Speaks and Autism Every Day is aware of this success story. A thousand blessings on the happy couple. And the book too.

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16 Feb 2008, 5:41 pm

sartresue wrote:

Autism Every Date topic

I hope Autism Speaks and Autism Every Day is aware of this success story. A thousand blessings on the happy couple. And the book too.

Maybe someone needs to go post it, in a friendly manner, on the Autism Speaks site.

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17 Feb 2008, 7:24 pm

I wish I had that kind of a luck with dating. Most of the guys I dated acted like it was wrong for me to want some space. What's hard is asking anyone I'm interested in out. Always has been the other way around.

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18 Feb 2008, 9:01 am

MissConstrue wrote:

It always has seemed to me that in our society it is acceptable for a man to say "I need some space.", and women are supposed to simply accept this. But when a woman says " I need some space.", the men become very upset and angry. Why is there this double standard in dating?

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