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My nephew is skeeved out by my kinky life. How do I stay true to myself without ruining the relationship?
Setting boundaries without shame.
We’ve got a quick & dirty Autistic Advice / Sex Liberation question in the ask box today, from an Autistic person whose journey of self-acceptance has meant getting a whole lot more openly interested in kink. Unfortunately, their newly sexually liberated lifestyle gives their younger (but still adult!) nephew the ick — and the shame and guilt that this is stirring up is threatening to send Anon back into masking who they are. Let’s take a look:
Hi Anon, thank you for writing in with this question!
I’m someone who lives their sexual deviance out in the open, so I’ve faced dilemmas somewhat like yours. Not long ago, a younger adult relative who looks up to me admitted that reading all of my essays about cruising and kink do make them feel a little bit…awkward. I know I’d feel the same way in their position. Thankfully, this relative is a canny student of human psychology and a highly analytical Autistic person (I guess it runs in the family or something), so they were able to separate their own…
