The concept of intimacy includes the idea of being open to others. But autistic patients have a hard time dealing with relationships, and for a therapist to become “autistic” is therefore an emotional paradox. Intimacy is a condition that involves others and requires the ability to maintain a condition in which emotional background noise doesn’t interfere, and the body is free enough of anxiety to allow people to get onto the same wavelength. For psychoanalysts, the ambiguity of the situation lies in the fact that, as in any therapy, becoming “autistic” with autistic people means seeking empathy with the patient, but also protecting ourselves, sometimes in an unconscious way, from contact with overwhelming feelings. So, oscillating in a contiguous-autistic state of mind is both a positive and a negative therapeutic fact; on the other hand, maintaining the paradox can be a valuable tool in psychoanalytic therapy.

亲密的概念包括对他人开放的想法。但是自闭症患者很难处理人际关系，因此治疗师成为“自闭症”是一个情感悖论。亲密关系是一种涉及他人的条件，需要有能力维持情绪背景噪音不干扰的条件，并且身体没有足够的焦虑，让人们进入相同的波长。对于精神分析学家来说，这种情况的模棱两可在于这样一个事实，就像在任何治疗中一样，对自闭症患者成为“自闭症”意味着寻求与患者的同理心，同时也保护自己，有时是在无意识的方式下，免于接触压倒性的感情。因此，在连续自闭症的心态中摇摆不定是一个积极和消极的治疗事实。另一方面，