{"id":45997,"date":"2017-06-02T12:56:20","date_gmt":"2017-06-02T16:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=45997"},"modified":"2022-09-26T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T13:35:42","slug":"scientific-american-interviews-wright-state-autism-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/06\/02\/scientific-american-interviews-wright-state-autism-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientific American interviews Wright State autism expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Excerpt<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-45251\" src=\"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2017\/04\/cola-260x204.jpg\" alt=\"College of Liberal Arts logo\" width=\"260\" height=\"204\" \/>Society teaches people with autism from a young age that they are incapable of love, says\u00a0Jessica Penwell Barnett, assistant professor of sexuality studies in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Barnett leads sexual education sessions for college students with autism. The stereotype of children with autism as cold, emotionless robots is painful, pervasive and entirely misleading, she says. \u201cSome are very aware of this social representation\u2014it\u2019s like a cloud that hovers over all of their thinking about whether they can be in a relationship or whether another person is going to want to be with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, many people with autism both desire and sustain lasting relationships. \u201cThere\u2019s no incompatibility with being on the spectrum and being in a romantic relationship, being in love, being part of a committed partnership,\u201d Barnett says. Like Shore, an estimated\u00a047 percent of adults\u00a0with the condition share their home\u2014and their life\u2014with a romantic partner.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/when-sex-is-a-foreign-language\/\">scientificamerican.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Excerpt Society teaches people with autism from a young age that they are incapable of love, says\u00a0Jessica Penwell Barnett, assistant professor of sexuality studies in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies program at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. Barnett &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2017\/06\/02\/scientific-american-interviews-wright-state-autism-expert\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":45251,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[747,715,4855,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-45997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-liberal-arts","category-news","category-social-sciences-and-international-studies","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45997"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45997\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46000,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45997\/revisions\/46000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}