do you feel like you have a male brain in a female body?

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This site has a quiz that helps determine if you have a male brain or a female brain....I came out overwhelmingly SQ....so seems I have a male type brain....

www.eqsq.com

I feel like I have a female brain in a male body... and that female brain is a lesbian.

sometimes i feel like i have a male brain in a female body. for instance i like tom boyish things and dislike self grooming, make-up, tiptoeing around guys or having to feel that my views and ideas are any less important than theirs.

i do feel that the asperger/baron-cohen prevailing idea that AS features an 'extreme or exagerated male brain' insulting because it is not a MALE brain: it's MY brain.

i am the first one to admit that i feel or empathise with maleness to an extent, but that is for me to decide from the inside not for someone else to decide that i am not a 'proper' female on their own observed scales.

now do you see why the theory could be seen to be disingenuous to females with AS?

In many ways yes, why else would I have it in my signature? Let's see

Don't wear makeup
Could careless about fashion
Dislike gossip
Talk way less than most females
Hate girly things
Prefer learning about science like stuff, like global warming or end of the world scenarios
Love computers
Hate having hair done, or nails
Hate facials
Prefer to be independent if I can
I say what I mean, and I don't use any hidden language females seem to use

Ok, so maybe I more of an atypical female than male. It seems like NT females are the opposite of me, and I can't stand them.

I think this relates more to interests, than anything, but having said that, I'd have to say I'm more male in that I am not nuturing or domestic and never was. I am however, just as interested in physics as I am in writing. I think for me it's a case of I am either interested or completely disinterested. There is no inbetween. Fortunately for me, I attract OCD men who want to take care of all of that disorder around me so I don't have to. They get to feel in control of that "space" and my eating habits and I don't have to worry about it. Oh, and I attract mom wannabes like bees to honey. They love to "take care" of me. I just find the whole thing odd. I guess I just never understood the motivation to want these other things.


On the other hand, I have zero interest in sports and other stereotypical male entertainment pursuits.

I would also say my lack of emotional response is always seen as a male trait. Emotion usually makes me nervous and agitated.

My brain is androgynous/agendered.


-SpaceCase

Same here.

Count me as gender neutral. Mostly I feel as though I have a non human brain in a generally human body.

yes I do in fact I am in choir and we are singing a song called I Enjoy Being A Girl of course in the song we sing I Enjoy Being A Girl we also sing I am strictly A female female When we sing those words I want to laugh because it is so not true in my case more like I do not Enjoy being a girl and I am strictly A tom boy tom boy

I can't say that I do

I dont really feel like a boy trapped in a girls body. But i've always wanted to be a boy, ever since I was little I wanted to wear boy's clothes and do boy things. And I remember being very upset when i realized that I did not have a boy's parts., around three or four i realized this. And everytime I play a pretend game I always play the boy or the dad LOL.

I'd say my brain is 65% female and 35% male.

Considering that the male brain is on average larger then the female brain, and the female brain is more dense, You must be one funny looking girl with a really weird looking brain.

I guess I phrased that badly. What I mean is I feel 65% female and 35% male.

Last edited by Cheerlessleader on 15 Mar 2007, 5:31 am, edited 1 time in total.

I do not feel I have a male brain, more of an atypical female brain. Growing up I liked science and hanging out in the woods or sitting up in a tree reading a book. Never considered myself a tomboy due to clumsiness with sports. Also never enjoyed dressing up, make up, chatting on the phone or other things my sister was in to. I like children but the thought of being pregnant has always horrified me. Yet I feel more like a woman than a man.

I am now in my 40's and still trying to figure this brain out. I was diagnosed with ADHD in my 30's but wonder if what I actually have is AS or maybe am somewhere in between, if that is possible. When I was a kid AS was not talked about and only boys were dx with ADHD.

If I didn't have boobs and progeny I'd swear I was male.