Do you feel like a man?

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I used to. These days I don't identify with anything.

edit: removed the reply as I started another thread with it, since new questions opened up for me.

I do. I find most teenagers annoying. I dress more like a guy. I hate most female clothes. It's hard to find suitable clothes in stores. I clothe very male-like. I hate clothes shopping. I do not wear makeup or jewelry. Some people have mistaken me for a male person or noticed that i look like male though i am female and start commenting some trash, bullying and so on. I have a cousin who is a male and we get along fine. It's hard to understand most female.

All my interests are more male dominated. To a point where I am used to being the only girl in a crowd of guys. It feels kind of weird when they look at me like a girl, fortunately that illusion is shattered the first time I correct them on a Star Wars ship design detail, after which I'm a geek guy with... smaller boobs than a lot of them to be honest but having to sit down to pee. I get the guys better, the girls are tricky. My guy friends sometimes complain they don't get women, can I explain? Hah! I wish!

I find I'm not really 'attached' to my biological gender or it's specific body parts. Like I hear the touching cancer stories and the comments about 'but the worst part was feeling the loss of my breast' and it seriously weirds me out since to me they're just inconvenient sweat gatherers that get in the way and add bulkage where none should be. Heck, if there were a way to donate them I'd have donate both of mine already to a more caring home! The rest... equally disinterested in or annoyed at. Aside from their most sensitive body part being placed on the outside it seems to me like the guys got the better deal in structural design of their meatsuits. If there were a way to opt in to a neither category somewhere between the two sexes that was gender neutral I'd be down with that. Not like it could confuse people any more than they already are on what I am.

Sometimes. But I don't really know what it's like to be a man. I have dreams that I am a man sometimes, though. I have always gotten along better with boys than girls, and liked doing activities with boys. Like digging for bugs, climbing trees, wrestling, playing with boys' toys like remote control cars and robots and lego's. Last time I played dolls I was 4 years old.
I still get along better with my guy friends, and have few girl friends. I play Magic: the Gathering with them, talk videogames and anime with them, and hang with them most of the time.

I'm a hetero tomboy... but I often wonder if I'm not a dominate gay man stuck in the wrong body. Not that I dislike my female parts - I'm just interested in male parts and how they fit together.

Yep, sometimes feel like a boy ...though androgyne feels like a better description.

Was wondering... in my experience my oddities are more accepted when I am a clear outlier in a group anyway (like being a girl between boys, but it is more general). So.... at a young age seeing you're more accepted by the opposite sex, might this trigger some of the gender-confusion in ASD?

The thing is... I was raised a bit differently: my mother wanted a boy and totally pushed me in the direction of science... ridiculing any feminine expression (like skirts... ) Of course at school I got the opposite push, but still.

Ah... well.. it's probably a mixture of all kinds of stuff.

Not at this time of the month but sometimes

I am bisexual and have definite penis envy.
I find most women's BS to be, well, BS, the way men do.
On the other hand, the way lots of men behave is totally assholeish.
I like to camp and get dirty and not shower that much, makeup and high heels annoy me. I have a pee-standing-up-funnel for camping.
I have no interest whatever in sports or cars.
I am irrationally emotional (and don't understand my emotions myself) and cry easily.
I have the classic feminine insecurity problems including trouble making decisions, saying "no", or speaking up.
I will immediately gravitate toward any baby in the room, I just go ga ga. I love babies.
I am always fighting with my husband about housework and fashion, because I don't want to do either, and he would prefer that I do.

What do you suppose a man feels like?

I have no idea. I don't know what being a man feels like.
But then I don't know what being a woman feels like with any certainty.
I only know what being me feels like.
I don't fit a typical female stereotype.
I probably fit typical male stereotype better - in both dress and interests.
I am female and am comfortable with my female body.
Sexual preference wise - I'm not really that interested in sex with anyone of any gender, but I am married to a man.
Wow. Complicated question!

I'm too chubby in girly places to feel like a man.

I do relate better to men and don't conform to any female gender stereotypes. Any time I tried to be a girly girl, I failed spectacularly usually with socially humiliating results.

When I had short hair and wore baggy clothes, people often mistook me for a man. They'd go "is that a man or a woman?" and "hey boy, you're going in the wrong direction!" (I rode my bike the wrong way of a one-way street).

And I also felt like an in-between. I wasn't considering a gender reassignment or anything, but I often thought about what it would be like to be a man.

But then I had a dream that I was in a freak accident and they had to replace my private parts with that of a man's. First I thought, what the heck, but after a while the reality of the situation hit me. "No, seriously, take it off. OMFG, TAKE IT OFF!" It probably sounds strange, but after that I've been comfortable with who I am.

Now I feel that your (physical) gender doesn't dictate what or who you are.

Right now, I feel a little confused about my gender. I've always felt different than other girls, yet had similar interests. As a kid, I wanted to have badass superpowers and fight just as hard as any boy, yet I enjoyed playing with Barbie dolls and wearing girly clothes. Lately, I feel as if my mind is controlled by a feminine man. I wonder if it's because I feel like I think differently than other girls. The whole idea of gender is kind of complex to me. I feel like I somehow have traits of both men amd women personality-wise, but I present myself as a cisgender woman. I'm not sure if this is a phase or I genuinely feel partially like a man. Well, whatever gender I actually am, I know I'm mostly feminine.