Autism

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Autism
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Sexuality Emotions
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• Cees Hage nurse, manager, trainer, coach
• Blankers-Hage v.o.f.
• The Netherlands
• Topics
• Autism
• Sexuality
• Difficult behavior
• Team processes/conflicts

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Development tasks for an adolescent

• Male/female identity
• Sexmodel and gender identity
• Sexual behavior in combination with norms and
  values
• Partner-privilege
• Integration of the sexuality

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Emotional development

• Same emotions unable to place the feelings to
  the proper reaction
• Central coherence problems to make connections
  or to relive or replace into others

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Emotions

• People are objects
• Every stomage feeling is the same for all
  emotions
• Seeing an emotion, doesnt give
  understanding(context blindness)
• Emotional pressure from the enviroment brings
  stress and frustration
• Old experiences are everytime new, again

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Physical development

• Puberty is the same
• Early or late puberty (some syndromes)
• Strong change in the way they look
• 20/30 decrease of functioning
• Psychofarmica

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Sexual development

• In childhood the same, increase in puberty
• Trias Of Wing Aloof, Passive, Active-but-odd

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Main signs of autism that courses problems in the
sexual development

• Disturbance in communication
• Stereotypical behaviour, patterns and interesses
• A wrong image of the reality and their own body
• Strange use of senses
• Problem in learning, holding and generalising new
  skills
• Behaviour and emotional problems

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Identity developmentFuture
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Sexual problems

• Behaviour problems
• Hypermasturbation
• Masturbating with objects
• Lack of shame
• Touching and kissing everyone
• Communication problems
• Only talking about sex
• Risk for abuse
• Emotional problems
• Partner-relationship problems

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Problems to deal with for parents and guiders

• Strong responsibility
• Masturbation in public
• Approaches towards other people
• Abuse
• Touching
• Lack of shame
• Sex without an intimate relationship
• Problems with birth control
• Unrealistic expectation in future
• Sexual behaviour
• Lack of help

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How to educate?

• Timing
• Individualize
• Guidence

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The context of sexual education

• Discrimination skills
• Intimate hygien
• Mentioning body parts
• Masturbation
• Education in a strict way
• Emotional guidence
• Building up an intimate relationship

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Analyzing

• Are there signs of a sexual problem?
• To where or to what is the sexual behaviour
  stressed out?

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Total Image
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Coping with the sexual problems

• Sexual education
• Learning how to protect them selves
• Learning acceptabel sexual preoccupations

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Material for support the education/the raising up

• Able-body
• Emotions
• Sexuality

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Questions?
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Thank you very much for your attention!
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