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<blockquote data-quote="Annb" data-source="post: 2336545" data-attributes="member: 25851"><p>Neil, who has Asperger's, has been unwilling to hug all his life. Even as a small child, he was all elbows and knees to ward off people who tried to hug him. I used to insist, but stopped when he was in his teen because I realised that it distressed him. We didn't know about Asperger's way back then and thought that he was quite uncaring. However, when his grandmother died, although quite calm and unemotional himself, we saw him hugging his cousin who was seriously distressed at losing her grandmother, we realised that he did care but was not able, for whatever reason, to express it, or receive it. I still could do with a hug, but have had very few since my husband became unable to express emotion some 20+ years ago. I've got used to it. Em helps and so does No 2 son, although, I have to ask him - it isn't spontaneous.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Annb, post: 2336545, member: 25851"] Neil, who has Asperger's, has been unwilling to hug all his life. Even as a small child, he was all elbows and knees to ward off people who tried to hug him. I used to insist, but stopped when he was in his teen because I realised that it distressed him. We didn't know about Asperger's way back then and thought that he was quite uncaring. However, when his grandmother died, although quite calm and unemotional himself, we saw him hugging his cousin who was seriously distressed at losing her grandmother, we realised that he did care but was not able, for whatever reason, to express it, or receive it. I still could do with a hug, but have had very few since my husband became unable to express emotion some 20+ years ago. I've got used to it. Em helps and so does No 2 son, although, I have to ask him - it isn't spontaneous. [/QUOTE]
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