Resources for Women with Aspergers Syndrome

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I just took the eye expression test and got 21 , and most of them I was guessing and a lot I had no clue. Been trying to take other tests but won't let me load oh well.

I don't have a diagnosis but I got 121 on RAADS
I am asking now my sister to answer it for me and by far my score is even higher with her answers.

Youtube video featuring girls with Autism (Limpsfield Grange Girls with Autism - School for girls aged 11-16 with Autism, Asperger's, Speech, Language and Communication Difficulties and Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties and Vulnerabilities.). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oZhZ0k1lyF8

The links to the GlennRowe/BaronCohen pages are broken

Note to everyone, there's an online version of the RAADS-R here so you don't have to hand score: aspietestsDOTorg/raads/index.php (I'm not allowed to post links).

My RAADS-R score was 155, which seems so high to me. I thought I would get a score closer to the borderline, like my AQ score of 32.

My QGAS score was 29. I wish I had the guts to ask my parents to complete it so we could compare our scores.

However, my Eye Expression Test was 33 out of 36. I did use some strategy when completing it, but overall I didn't find it that difficult, especially with the multiple choice. Process of elimination makes the test a lot easier. Still, it's making me question if Asperger's is really the right diagnosis for me, or if I have to accept that I'm not exactly neurotypical, but not really autistic either.

I want the opinion of a professional or even someone who knows me well and knows about autism, but I'm way too scared to ask.

I just did the eye expression one and they all looked the same! How can you tell someone's emotions simply from their eyes? I tried to mimic all the eye movements, and now I have a headache. NT's must be super powered!

I know this is a "women only" forum, so I will duck in and out quickly. I just wanted to say that I am a psychologist in Southern CA (Torrance), specializing in diagnosing females on the spectrum. If I can be of any help, please do not hesitate to contact me.

WASP Women’s Asperger’s Syndrome Awareness Page – For those who understand

http://seventhvoice.wordpress.com/2013/ ... nderstand/

WOW never seen such an exhaustive collection of info on autism. thanks!

There's so much information in this thread that I am bumping it for those members who have joined since the last post/are looking for these resource listings.

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Also here are a few more AS books that may be of interest:


Not Even Wrong (ISBN 1-58234-367-5) is an autobiographical account by Paul Collins, a historian who views his autistic son as a happy, healthy child and resists the mainstream idea that autism is a crippling disease. Educating himself as well as the reader in the history and background of autism, Collins searches for (and finds) a school where his son's strengths as an autistic will be encouraged rather than suppressed. He points out that autistic people can and do communicate, even when they do not or cannot speak. He also emphasizes that many autists go unrecognized as such because they do not fit the stereotypical profile, particularly if they are successful in their careers; their autistic traits are often simply passed off as eccentricities. The book is as much intended for autistic people as it is for parents and others who need to know that autists are not vegetables.

Aquamarine Blue 5 (ISBN 0-8040-1054-4) is a collection of essays by autistic college students, edited by Dawn Prince-Hughes. The students come from a variety of backgrounds. Most were not diagnosed autistic as children and have worked out their own ways to live in a society that seems very alien to them. The essays describe the advantages and disadvantages of autism to a person trying to succeed at university, and how outsiders can misinterpret a simple autistic preference as a mental disease. One girl, for example, reported the not uncommon autistic experience of having to eat only two or three food items and ordering the same thing every day; anything else made her vomit. She was mistaken by friends and university staff as having an eating disorder. Dr. Prince-Hughes tells her own story in Songs of the Gorilla Nation (ISBN 1-4000-5058-8).

A science fiction novel, C.S. Friedman's This Alien Shore (ISBN 0-88677-799-2), envisions a future in which states of mind currently thought of as mental diseases, among them autism, are accepted as valid lifestyles, and the cultures on many earth colonies have adapted to allow these persons to fit in and contribute to the economy and to society. People paint their faces with distinctive designs letting others know what to expect. Masada, one of the key characters, is clearly meant to be autistic, of a form often described as Asperger syndrome.

Margaret Atwood's novel, Oryx and Crake, has a university labelled Asperger's U, where almost every student appears to have Asperger Syndrome or autism in varying degrees of severity and form. People in the university refer to non-autists as neurotypicals and seem to view them as something altogether different (and perhaps inferior) to themselves. The end of the human race is brought about almost entirely by the character Crake, who attended Asperger's U and was no exception to their rule. He believed that the human race was, by the end of the novel, doomed to extinction simply because of its overuse of resources and the corruption of the social elite.

Also wanted to give thanks for this thread and forum in general-I don't exactly remember in which post I found her name, but someone had recommended looking into Tania A. Marshall. On her website there is a list of recommended providers who are familiar with female ASD/AS, and I ended up finding one listed within reachable distance in my state, so now I can finally begin the process to get my diagnosis made official. Really grateful guys, thanks!

Sex and The Single Aspie by Rudy Simone

The eye expression link didn't work.