Anne Hegerty has shared how autism affects her relationships. The much loved TV star confessed she struggles to get in the mood during sex and ‘zones out’ because she falls for fictional characters more than real people.
When the 61-year-old is around real people she gets ‘overwhelmed’ and finds it hard to communicate. ‘What I have found is that I do fall in love but it tends to not be with people I meet in real life, I fall in love with historical or fictional characters,’ Anne, who is single, told OK!
magazine. ‘People I can put a bit of distance between, I get overwhelmed in the presence of actual people and everything shuts down. ‘I’ve found that with sex, too, it’s like I can’t be fully in it- that much intimacy, I almost zone out.’ An
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