'Love on the Spectrum' Celebrates the Beauty – and Challenges – of Neurodiverse Dating

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4.2 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Dating, for everyone, is full of tricky social conventions. How long should you wait to call someone after getting their number? Who should cover the dinner bill? And navigating some of these situations can be extra difficult for autistic people. Netflix’s new season of “Love on the Spectrum,” an American version of the Australian docuseries, produced by Northern Pictures, premieres on Wednesday and explores the unique hurdles – and joys – that autistic people face when entering the dating pool. We’ll talk about love, heartbreak, and how autism plays into the beautiful messiness of it all with some of the people who made the show possible. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:56.6	From KQED in San Francisco, this is Forum.
1:17.1	I'm Mina Kim.
1:19.0	Dating is full of tricky challenges.
1:21.1	How long should you wait to call someone after getting their number?
1:24.6	Who should cover the dinner bill?
1:26.4	The documentary series Love on the Spectrum
1:28.8	explores the hurdles and joys that autistic people face when they enter the dating pool.
1:34.0	Now in its third season on Netflix, it's an American version of the original Australian series
1:39.6	and premieres tomorrow. So this hour, we're talking love, heartbreak, and how autism plays into the beautiful
1:45.4	messiness of dating. Join us. Welcome to Forum. I'm Nina Kim.
2:02.3	Dating can be hard, and often autistic people don't get the support they need when looking for love.
2:08.4	That's what sparked the idea for the Australian docu-series called Love on the Spectrum.
2:13.6	Tomorrow is the premiere of its third season on Netflix, this time filmed in America, a lot of it in California.
2:20.6	Here's part of the trailer.
2:22.7	Are you looking for love?
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