Do You Love Someone Diagnosed With Autism? (What To Do)

Loving someone with autism can be an amazing journey, but it also comes with unique challenges that many people aren’t prepared for. Whether it’s your partner, child, friend, or family member, understanding their needs is the key to building a stronger, healthier relationship.

In this episode of The Aspie World Podcast, I’m sharing practical tips, emotional insights, and real-life strategies to help you support and connect with the autistic people you love — without forcing masking, changing who they are, or misunderstanding their needs.

• How autism affects communication, emotions, and daily life

• The do’s and don’ts of supporting someone diagnosed with autism

• How to navigate relationships without misunderstandings or frustration

• Tips to reduce sensory stress and emotional overwhelm

• Why acceptance, patience, and understanding make the biggest difference

When you truly understand autism, you create space for real connection and authentic relationships.

• Partners of autistic adults looking to improve their relationship

• Parents and carers supporting autistic children or teens

• Friends and family members who want to better understand autism

• Anyone wanting to build stronger, healthier relationships with autistic people

If you love someone on the autism spectrum, this episode will give you the tools, knowledge, and confidence to support them while celebrating who they are.

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Episode Transcript

(00:00):
So what should you do if your loved one is diagnosed with
autism? I'm going to go through all this
right now, guys. Welcome back to the Aspy world.
My name is Dan. I have autism and ADHD and make
weekly videos all about this stuff.
So if you're new around here andyou want to learn more, we're
going to hit the subscribe button down below by clicking
the notification bell. Guys, what is going on?
This video is specifically designed to help you understand

(00:21):
what do you do if your partner or your friend or even your kid
is diagnosed with autism or somebody you look and even as an
adult. So we're going to go through
some things like some typical protocol, which is the things
that you can take on board if you've just found out this one,
you know, is diagnosed with autism and how you can support
them and and support you. Also, I just want to say that if
you are having any mental healthissues and you don't want the

(00:42):
stress and the struggle of goingout to try and find a
counsellor, I highly recommend an app called Better Help.
This is not sponsored better help is LinkedIn, the
description down below, but it'san app on your phone that you
can download and you can use that app to connect to a
counsellor within 24 to 48 hoursand they will connect to you via
video or just chat or even audiophone call and you can have a
session with them completely from the comfort of your home.

(01:04):
Super accessible, super good andyou can find specific people who
deal with just ADHD or autism ormental health issues totally up
to you. So check out better help in the
link in description down below and by using the link out as
well. So that's kind of cool.
OK, so the first thing to do if you are, you know, with on who
you love and they are diagnosed with autism, you know, I would
say that understand and educate yourself all about autism.

(01:27):
You know, watching videos like this, reading magazines, signing
up to newsletters with subscribing some blogs about
going to the National Artistic Society meet ups or any charity
that you know have meet ups or social groups, go to those and
learn about the subject of autism.
The second thing you should do is be supportive and apathetic
towards the individual who has the autos discussion condition
because they're going to a lot try to adjust themselves and

(01:49):
starting up their diagnosis means that they are like this
now and they're trying to becomemore themselves and they just
need your support and understanding.
You have to encourage open communication and provide a safe
space for the personal spectrum to express themselves.
And this is essential because ifyou can't express yourself and
you can't kind of like be yourself around somebody who you
love about your condition and then you're kind of not really

(02:12):
moving forward, you're kind of being stuck at a standstill.
So the more open you can be withsomebody, the better.
So just try and promote that open communication.
Recognizing and respecting the unique strengths and challenges
is very crucial to this. Because if you don't understand
their challenges and their uniqueness, then they're going
to feel kind of like a bit left out or maybe feel quite
alienated from a situation and their uniqueness may not be seen

(02:34):
as such. You can also seek professional
help from therapists and autism specialists that can be really
beneficial for or the people whoare on the autism spectrum are
people who are loved ones of people on the autism spectrum.
It doesn't just have to be the autistic person getting therapy.
You know the family can benefit from this too if they're finding
a struggle. Promoting a dependence and
allowing the autistic person to make decisions for themselves is

(02:56):
encouraging. It's encouraging because
autistic individuals will have issues with executive
dysfunction which is organizing,planning, being independent and
these things are take a mental health toll on an autistic
person when they find struggles in these areas.
But above all, being patient andflexible, accommodating the
needs that generally contributedto autism to help the well-being

(03:17):
of the person you love. He's got to be so awesome and
all pay from dividends because the happier the person is then
the easier life is and the easier life is the easier Rd.
you get. Encouraging social
communications and providing opportunities for social
interaction is really crucial because autistic people will
have issues with social interaction, they'll have issues
socialising in general and finding opportunities to

(03:38):
socialise may be quite difficult.
So encouraging those would be amazing.
But the most significant thing is self-care for both an
individual and the autism loved one.
Both of you need self-care. Self-care means taking a brief
when you need it, making sure you're not overdoing it, making
sure that your needs are met andtheir needs are met completely.

(03:58):
Because what's going to happen is if you do everything for the
other person, then you're going to burn out.
And you can't be of support whenthe person you need to support
needs you when you need support yourself.
So it's a whole thing. Self-care is important and it's
number one guys. If you enjoyed this video, give
it a like share this video and I'll see you in the next one
guys, peace.