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While asperger marriage is an interesting account of a couple in which one partner is autistic and the other is not it should not be thought of as the type of self help book that my girlfriend and i thought it was rather those in such relationships would do better to regard it as an example of possible difficulties they themselves may be . One of the biggest challenges of an asperger marriage is the meltdown most people with aspergers and autism will have whats known as the meltdown when a person is experiencing sensory overload. Intimacy can be difficult to achieve in an aspergers marriage due to a lack of empathy and overwhelming sensory issues sex is one of the first noticeable struggles for the couple people with aspergers are unable to gauge when their partner is enjoying or not enjoying aspects of sex because they struggle with reading body language. Communication issues in an asperger marriage communication problems are often present with sometimes an absence of tonal variation an over expression of inappropriate emotions or trouble with describing or reflecting emotions called alexithymia