AS women more likely lesbian, if AS is "male-brainness&

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In psychology today, there's an article about "kirninia cosingi" (sp) who is a woman with a man's brain, which is based on the theory that autism is a maleness version of the brain.

I personally do have a maleness brain in that I like building stuff, preoccupied with things like dinosaurs, and like to play video games. The thought of girly-things like attending weddings and baby showers and watching girly relationship flicks like Titanic makes me bored. Sci-fi predator and aliens are cool. Titanic is boring to me.

so if you are a woman with AS, do you find yourself homosexually attracted to other women?

Why are you, a man, posting all of these sex related questions to the women's forum?

I think this is the 'thinking' form of processing versus 'feeling' form of processing (using personality traits). 66% of males and 33% of females use 'thinking' as their primary mode for solving problems, female 'thinkers' are seen as 'cold' and 'not feminine.' 'Feeling' is older in 'evolutionary' terms of decision making. Most females have the 'feeling' form of processing (I'm guessing because of the 'male' and 'female' roles in history (males spent time hunting which required skill and more thought))

Just my thoughts

What does having a so called "male" brain have to do with being homosexual?

What? Didn't you know? Lesbians are really just 'Men' with a bit 'less' and Gays are really 'Women' with a bit 'more'. By which I mean reproductive organs.

Oh wait, I forgot that it's just a bunch of BS.

That they tend to fall outside of gender roles is because they're already doing something distinct, so they are less likely to buy the same crap everyone else does.


If they aren't going out of their way to let everyone know that they're homosexual, chances are most people most of the time won't be able to tell.



The "Male brain" thing isn't unfounded. Because under the MRI, the regions of activity in the brain are the ones that men generally are using. Or so I've heard. (Frankly I'd like to see the pictures. Or even more so, conduct some real studies).

Mind you when I say that it isn't unfounded doesn't mean that it's necessarily correct. Frankly I have problems with taking a vague, abstract term and try to associate facts with them.

I honestly don't see what having a brain that is more typical of a certain gender has to do with sexual orientation. I think most people are probably bisexual, but most are afraid to admit it. I am heterosexual for the most part, and have never even kissed a woman (at least not in a sexual way), but I have found myself attracted to a particular woman a few times. Like just last week, there was a really cute girl working at the window of the drive through coffee place.

And I DEFINITELY have a "male" brain. I got a 720 on the math SAT 15 years ago. On that online test I scored at the highest level on the male brain test, the one that said very few men and no women score this high.

I was confused about my sexuality for a while because my body didn't physically respond much while having sex with a man; but it didn't physically respond much when having sex with a woman, either, and since I dislike most women, I realized there was no way I could be a lesbian. I just don't have a very sexually responsive body, or at least, it's very particular in how it can be made to respond.

I'm hetero, and have always been very secure in my sexuality. I first "moticed" boys when I was five. I am almost obsessive about men in an abstract sense - I love masculinity in a very reciprocal way, i.e., as a woman. I don't see myself as masculine - but masculine is defintiely what attracts me. Other women have been attracted to me, but not I to them. Ever. I do consider myself more sexually assertive and aggressive than most other women, and my assertiveness can unnerve some men. But I'm defintiely hetero, no doubt there.

This is an interesting topic. I came out as a lesbian about 15 years ago, and I always sort of felt like a "man" inside; but only because I didn't feel like a woman; I couldn't relate to all the "girly" things that other girls did, growing up. I was a tomboy, and considered myself a feminist at a young age.

And I took Calculus as a junior in high school ... and got 780 on the math part of SAT, thank you.

But... now that I am a little older, I find myself attracted to feminine "energy", whether it is in a man's body or a woman's. So, yes, I feel more bisexual--only in the sense that I am attracted to a person who could be a man or a woman. To me, it doesn't feel "bi" or "split" at all. For example, there are a lot of really "macho" lesbians who really turn me OFF. I'd be more attracted to a feminine man than a masculine woman.

And... yes, I agree with the person who said these are vague terms, because they are. But we need words sometimes to describe things, and I use the words "feminine energy" to describe what I am usually attracted to.

If you're female, a typical male brain would make you attracted to women, methink.

I'm a male AS and i'm 100% attracted to women.

I'd say I have more of a male brain. It's even in my signature. I was obssessed with dinosaurs at one time, and I love playing computer games and reading fantasy. I watch romantic movies, but they are not nearly as interesting to me as sci-fi/fantasy ones.

I'm definitely not a lesbian, but I am asexual.

Just because one is 'male brained' doesn't have to always indicate an attraction for a woman to other women. I'm female with AS and while I may be more 'male brained' so to speak, it only has really made me more 'tomboyish' than having anything to do with my sexuality.