Female Aspies-Scientist Versus Creative?

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creativity, baby...creativity.

I split the difference... psychology is both a science and an art.

I've always felt I need to exercise my right- AND left-brains. At my college, they had this thing where every major made you either a "techie" (e.g. engineering, math, science) or a "fuzzy" (art, liberal arts). So I found one of 3 majors that were a combination of both. The name we came up with for that is the first part of fuzzy + the last part of techie which is a wonderfully appropriate play on words. I ended up an architect which I find a great marriage of right and left brain.

Oh, didn't see the women's forum until now. How did I miss that?

I reside in the space between left and right. My career has switched from creative writing to editing, from technical web development to graphic design. I can hold my own in technical / science world, but probably not to the same degree as purely left brainers. I'm able to sculpt and draw, but probably not as well as Picasso

I like both art and science.

I love music, arts and making things as well as studying science, psychology and emerging technologies.

I'm a geek but I'm also creative.

I am both. The technical side is more along the lines of what I like to do for a living, while my artistic side is a very personal side of me. I am very sensitive to criticism of my art work, because I always feel like I pour my soul out on the painting, and if someone criticizes it, then it is as if they are criticizing who I am. That's why I don't tell people I am also an artist unless they are very close to me and I know they won't criticize me.

I'm technically good at science & math, but I am not satisfied at work unless I'm doing writing or graphic design.

Both.

Totally not into language and literature. LOVE science, LOVE arts and crafts.

Creativity is my strongest point though.

i love em all

started reading spanish dictionaries when i was 10 yrs old

fell in love with richard ellis in 4th grade and obsessively started researching sharks and wanting to be a marine biologist.... only after finding out about AS, did i switch gears and go into neuroscience

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I had no idea that "science" was strictly the domain of males, and that "creativity" was the realm of the female. This is sexual stereotyping, totally illogical and inaccurate. You need creativity to study science and science to study creativity.

Science and technology professions are undertaken at a post secondary level and usually need an investment in order to pursue them. I was discouraged from entering "traditionally male occupations, and told to take typing, hairdressing and home economics courses, all of which I failed in high school. There were not even any arts courses where I was studying. Technology courses (industrial arts) were not an option for women when I was a teen. I was discouraged from taking anything of that nature later because of dyspraxia. I may have done very well as I like to take things apart, build things, read plans, instructions, and understand how things work. Most importantly, I like to know the rhyme and reason, indispensible in any occupation.

Oh, well. Maybe in the next life.

For me, its mostly science. I like learning about the world from a scientific perspective and I like to do work equations and calculations as long as its not complex. (I hate Physics and math from Calc and above). Im slightly creative, I like basic crafts and sewing, not fond of drawing. I used to dance and play a few instruments but I was never that good at that stuff. I absolutly hate literature. I cant stand reading fiction, nonfictions ok.

It definitely varies.

I've alternated happily between the two for most of my childhood and teen years. My earliest remembered obsession was a blissful period in which I was enamored with dinosaurs and refused to play dolls (other girls could use their dolls, but I'd have to be allowed to play with my raptor or I simply didn't play.) I've also been obsessed with Platyhelminthes, turtles, and moorish idol fish, but right now, it's all about the violin (which I've played for 15 years) and Dostoevsky.

Similar, I guess. I was pushed towards arts, did Art Foundation, was accepted to degree in painting and sculpture, and just gave up on the whole thing. Which is a regret in hindsight, I'd love to do illustration.

After a fairly long break, did degree in neuroscience ( of the receptors and ion channels variety rather than the cognitive stuff) and just completing Masters in Pharmacology and biotechnology. Interestingly, I feel I need to do creative things, particularly when science is stressful....I fill sketchbooks with drawings and paintings but don't tend to show anyone, and as I don't like visitors, the housey things I make and create (sculptures, mirror frames, altering furniture) are kind of unknown. I do make and alter clothes, jewellery etc and ice bizarre cakes, these are known things...of course, no-one cn see them unless they are "perfect"

Other types of science-physics, astonomy- means nothing to me. Can't muster any interest whatsoever.

I'm in the middle and love both art and science. Now I report on online tools for creatives on radio, tv and at the MsBehaviour Files for the Big Idea. I have just published my first animated version: http://www.thebigidea.co.nz/news/column ... iour-video

Split ticket here. My interests are all over the map, but tend to reach deep into obsessive territory. On the scientific side, I have been seriously interested in meteorology for about 35 years, constantly reading and learning more about the subject. While not the mega-techhead I was, say, 15 years ago, I still make my living in IT, designing and building complex financial modelling systems. On the arts and literature side, I am a serious music lover and have a special interest in foreign languages. In deference to the systemic and analytic part of me that has been well-developed since toddlerhood, I am as much interested in the systemic aspects of languages - sound systems, grammar and word aetymologies, as I am in the "applied" part (especially music - I'm listening to Serbian-language music as I write this). I also have an uncontrollable affinity for tables of information and systemic diagrams, such as maps and transport systems - the stuff stereotypes are made of! Overall, I tend to mix creativity, science and technology, and heavy-duty analysis, which the top-quality professionals I work with recognise as valuable.