Female Aspies-Scientist Versus Creative?

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It's called dyscalculia, a first cousin of dyslexia and dyspraxia. At the other extreme, there are also hypercalculia and hyperlexia. A great many autistic people exhibit some combination of these five conditions.

The rare and endangered Female AS Nerd can be found in it's most common habitat, the public library. The mental diet of these timid creatures consists of weekly science magazines, internet NASA archives, and advanced biology based jokes only a nerd would think was funny. Many times Female AS Nerds can be seen wandering the internet jungles at night, searching for fresh ideas to consume at a ravenous rate. Many of subspecies of this rare nerd have hunted to extintion by 'Lonely Hearts' newspaper ads and creepy guys that hide in labratories. Many have willingly disappeared into the information wilderness, forever immersed in the foliage of book stores and interesting trading depots abroad.

I put way too much thought into describing myself...

I have a healthy fascination with scientific things and a love of statistics but also much enjoy reading, crafts, music and other creative exploits. I'd have to say I'm a bit of both but if I was forced to choose one or the other I would say I probably enjoy creative things more, although I can find their unpredictability frustrating at times.

oh science all the way....i even read only science fiction and work as a scientist. my dream job . regarding creativity, that is exactly why i love my scientific work, i invent things.
in a country where i grew up (serbia, zdravo melisa!), engenieering schools had aprox 50% of females i.e. it was normal to have women to study science/eng so i was schocked to when i came to us and figured out i am a in minority category.

i would like to do some design and sawing, also plan to build an aternative house (self-suistanable, eco-smart materials) one day and maybe write a sci-fi story. the last one is going to be hard because one of my weaknesess is language.

I have a fascination for some science like astronomy and chemistry, but I am mostly into neuroscience, psychology and things of that nature. I also like to write and read, although I never liked English class during school.

mostly always been artsy here, love of language, lit, poetry, theatre, but as an adult and a Mother I have LOVEd reading medical information to the point of reading medical school texts and nursing school texts for pleasure. I have some health issues so I sort of perserverate on the issues I have in an ongoing effort to participate in my physical well being and provide a shield for my children through nutrition and healthy lifestyle from the same issues I have that I know they are suseptable to. This has brought me much farther into the scientific field than I ever thought I'd go. I was the one who was afraid I wasn't good at math, but as a home schooling Mom I find I know more than I thought I did. I also do very, very well with practical skills and money. I manage books with ease and do fine with the kinds of numbers we have going through our cking acct, lol, but not with the kind of numbers my attorney husband goes through in the business of managing millions. I don't think I'd ever be good at or have any desire to be good at that kind of math! But I find that when science and math have directly to do with people, as in the example of health or assisting my children to learn.... I am kind of into it after all.

I definitely lean towards the creative/literature/language side of things. I say lean, because I have dyscalculia, like several other people here, and if I was capable I probably would have gone into a scientific field – I had very strong scientific interests when I was younger, but it quickly became aparent that I just wouldn't be able to do that kind of work.

That said, I always used narrative as a way of explaining other people's actions when I didn't understand. Unfortunately, this lead to me often constructing very interesting but simply wrong backstories for people I knew, then treating them like the truth. Not, ultimately, that good!

I lean towards both science and the arts. I'm very interested in languages, animal science, medical science, psychology and physics for example.

Me too. I really loved astronomy, dinosaurs, palentology, and pretty much everything before civilization. I also really loved stories. Around sixth grade, I started losing interest in science, and I was already a dedicated reader of fiction, so even though my science-oriented interests are still alive, they're unfed.

I also do use narrative and dialogue to explain people's actions, as well as socio-cultural analysis. This doesn't translate well into people skills (or even my fiction writing, sadly). I am aware that more importance should be given to what they think than to what I think they think, because I would like them to do the same with me.

I am interested in absolutely everything except Maths. I can't do Maths and have never been good at it. But I love science. I love finding out how things work. I love reading about theories about the structure of time and odd things like that. I am also interested in psycology and how people's minds work. Probably because I want to understand how to relate to other people. I am absolutely fascinated by the evolution verses creation debate and try and read as much about it as I can. It amazes me how people stick to one point of view and can't see the other side. I can see something from several points of view all at once and I don't know whether this is a strength or a weakness because it can make me indecisive.

I also love art. I like to paint and I am very creative. I like to sew and make my own clothes. Weirdly I hate fashion because I think it is totalitarian and conformist, but I would love to be a fashion designer because I love colours and shapes and I love fabrics and rich textiles. I love poetry and I like to read novels. I once wrote a novel. I wanted to be a writer when I was younger, but once I realised that I don't understand regular human relationships I decided that I was ill-equipped to write about life. Oddly looking back on it I have realised that my main character has alot of aspie traits and I think I will re-write it and make it known from the outset that she has AS and it might be more believeable. I don't know if anyone will ever publish it.


I love languages. I started to learn Arabic and really enjoyed decoding the script. I pick languages up quite quickly, but I lost contact with my friend from Iraq, so I don't use it anymore.

And despite all of these mad interests I don't feel like I have accomplished much. I feel that people I have grown up with are moving on with their lives, getting married, having children etc and I am still alone and still don't connect well with other human beings.

Growing up I dreamed of becoming an inventor but unfortunately I kind of sucked at science because I always had trouble following instruction on science experiments.

I was always pretty artistic from a young age so I became a Graphic Designer which to me is a blend of art and science in a way. I used art as my escape growing up but in the painting sense I was never an artist because I have always needed a clear purpose for what I do.

I'm possibly a bit of both.

I always wished I was scientific or pragmatic but it just isn't a strong trait I share. My only strongest points however are biology and physics. But I suck as far as math and logic go.

I lean towards the sciency side. Honestly I think equations are beautiful. I've just started a phd too so sciencey stuff is most of my life. On the other hand I spent the majority of my childhood living in imaginary worlds and I'm a fairly enthusiastic live action role player and love just getting lost in fiction.

I have always leaned very strongly toward language, literature and the arts.

I try to be equal. Reason tempered by imagination leads to genius.

Or madness, take your pick.