Telling Disabled and Autistic Sexuality Stories: Reflecting upon the Current Research Landscape and Possible Future Developments
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Notes on Language and Key Concepts
3. Methods
4. Social Research on Disabled and Autistic LGBT+ Lives
4.1. Research Focus
4.2. Misconceptions and Misperceptions
4.3. Connections between Disability, Autism and LGBT+ Identities
- The tendency to need to prove both;
- The underlying narratives of fixing or curing;
- Erasure or invalidation due to misunderstanding. (Adapted from [11])
4.4. Identity
- 4.
- To educate others—to show that you can be LGBT+ and disabled and to educate others about how this worked in their lives;
- 5.
- To support others—if other people were to raise LGBT+ issues in public, they would come out to help others;
- 6.
- To protect themselves—strategic ‘outness’ was vital, and this was acerbated due to disability;
- 7.
- To protect others—perhaps surprisingly, young people considered how their coming out would potentially affect others and did not want to put others in a difficult position;
- 8.
- To gain access to community—although communities were often seen as unwelcoming towards disabled people, a sense of belonging or access to support was often highly sought after. (Adapted from Toft [15])
4.5. Education
5. Frameworks and Methods for Investigating Disabled or Autistic LGBT+ Lives
5.1. Early Research and the Social Model
5.2. Beyond the Social Model
5.3. Emerging Frameworks
6. Moving Forward
6.1. Research Progress
- Research needs to include ‘all’ disabled people, not just those who can easily participate in research;
- There needs to be an intersectional focus;
- There needs to be a focus on pleasure (as opposed to focussing solely upon challenges);
- All research needs to be collaborative and co-produced. (Adapted from [90])
6.2. Sexual Stories
People tell sexual stories to assemble a sense of self and identity. Sexual stories lay down routes to a coherent past, mark off boundaries and contrasts in the present and provide both a channel and a shelter for the future. If they do their work well, sexual stories will give us a sense of our histories-partly of our own life and where we’ve come from, but no less a sense of a collective past and shared memories. They will provide a cause, a sequence, a history.[8] (p. 172)
Certainly, there are stories-important stories at that-which remain largely hidden from sight. Much of the sexual can still not be said, and there are stories that may well be awaiting their time.[8] (p. 114)
- Examine what the current stories about disabled or autistic LGBT+ lives look like;
- Explore how new stories can be adopted into public consciousness and the stages for achieving this;
- Demonstrate how disabled or autistic LGBT+ people are empowering themselves and how this can be supported by others.
6.3. Current Disabled or Autistic Sexuality Stories
- Stories are imagined and visualized; there is empathy for the personal stories;
- Stories start to be told; they are announced and shared;
- The individuals become storytellers; and identities are created;
- These identities lead to the creation of communities and social worlds;
- A culture of public problems is created as stories move into the public consciousness (Adapted from [8] p. 126).
6.4. Creating New Stories
- There needs to be a significant number of people wanting to claim the new story and accept it in their own lives;
- The stories need to be told openly and visibly so that others can find the stories and identify with them;
- They have to attract the support of others who give their story credibility. Such allies do not claim the story as their own but work to empower others. (Adapted from [8], p. 129)
6.5. Implications
7. Conclusions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Toft, A. Telling Disabled and Autistic Sexuality Stories: Reflecting upon the Current Research Landscape and Possible Future Developments. Sexes 2023, 4, 102-117. https://doi.org/10.3390/sexes4010010
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