Hello and welcome to smart sex smart love. We're talking about sex goes beyond the taboo and talking about love goes beyond the honeymoon. I'm Dr. Joe court and today we're gonna be talking about adult neuro diverse relationships with psychotherapist Ashley Grubbs. Ashley is a licensed professional counselor practicing in Texas, Virginia in Colorado. Currently, she's working on her PhD in clinical psychology from modern sex therapy institutes. She specializes in PTSD and trauma, sex therapy, and neuro diverse couples counseling. She uses acceptance and Commitment Therapy as well as systemic approaches to build rapport and authentic connections with her clients. She's passionate about assisting others with intimacy and gender concerns, is an ally for LGBTQ, and she is kink friendly. Her goal is to help learn clients learn new skills to live their best lives. Welcome, Ashley. Hi, thanks for having me. So glad to have you here. I would just like to start because, you know, I am married to somebody who is on the autism spectrum. He has ASD used to be called Asperger's. We still call it that. But I know there's controversy around the word because of the man was named after. But um, I wrote an article a few years ago on Huffington Post, and it did receive a lot of attention. But I don't really know how much attention because it was an article and the comments sections was all I had to go by. And then a week ago, on Sunday morning, I just decided I'm doing all this stuff on Tick tock, I thought I'm just gonna talk about my relationship because it can help others who are in the same relationship. So I talked about being married to Mike. And when we got together, in our very first time together, he asked me, if we were on a date, he's just like I said, is this a date? You know, when you're two gay men? And you're going out? You don't know? Is this a friendship? Is this a date? So it was so intriguing to me to have somebody be so vulnerable, so honest. And on our second date, he said, is we still dating, And that, to me was like, even more vulnerable, and it just grabbed my heart. I always was able to see his vulnerability. But I didn't know he had Asperger's. At the time. I didn't know what it was. I just knew I was in love with him. I thought he had a he's an IT guy. He had his own brain, the way his brain work in working with it, you know, computer databases. And so anyways, last week, I went on there, I said that I just did like a minute on it, and it and Tic Tac video. And it now has over 4 million views and 1000s and 1000s of comments, many, many of which are these couples, where one is neuro typical like me, and the other one other predators like my husband, neuro atypical. And then there's all these mothers, of children who are so thankful to hear from somebody like me that there is hope for their child to have these relationships. So that's all I want to say. That's how we got here. Oh, and then I was supervising you the next day. And then I don't know why I never knew this. But you were like, Oh my God, that's my like the biggest specialty. And then you started educating me. I'm like, you got to be on the show. So happy to have you here. Yeah,