Gender Identity Disorder and Asperger's Syndrnome.

Post Reply New Topic

I am transgendered btw.

What's this! a nerdy dag like me dressing like a woman. Hardly!

When I was a kid, I wanted to change my sex to a girl. However, it had nothing do to with gender issues. It's simply because every adult in my life made it clear that girls have it easier, unintentionally, albeit. They would tell me things like "boys aren't supposed to cry", "boys are supposed to be active", "boys are supposed to give up seats [on the bus] for girls", etc. Basically, there many thing boys "weren't allowed" to do. Obviously, I was seeing 50% of the population getting the better deal, and desperately wanted to become one of them.

The desire to change my sex faded out around age 9. Once the puberty kicked in, being me again became the worse deal, but for a different reason. This time, I didn't want to become a girl, but rather a player-type guy. Now, at age 23, I'm more-or-less comfortable with who I am, as I at least managed to learn enough skills to get a date once in a while.

I don't get why so many people create polls to be part of the discussion. it seems unnecessary to me.

As a child in primary school I used to want to be a girl. In retrospect I am glad that I do not have to put up with the abhorrent way many men treat women. Admittedly not all are particularly kind to those of their own gender either. Also, some women can be manipulative as well. I just seemed to have more interests in common with a higher proportion of girls as a child, though some of my closest friends were male. This is still true to some extent, though a slightly higher proportion of males with common interests than formerly (still lower than the corresponding proportion of female acquaintances) may have coincided with university.

I do not see why Gender Identity Disorder, if such a thing exists, would be confused with homosexuality; these seem to me to be entirely separate. I did not wish to be a girl because I found boys attractive, but rather because I found their (girls') pursuits more interesting than football. Not necessarily logical given the interests one pursues need not be bound by gender, but I was a child at the time.

Ever since I was a child I wanted to be male. I was a tomboy growing up too but my neighborhood was pretty much all boys so that could be why I'm that way. I know I'm a woman and I don't feel like I was born in the wrong body but I seem to think more like men and can relate to men better than women. I'm kind of like just "one of the guys".

So I don't if it's more of a male mind or what, I just know I don't think like women as much. Between that and my AS, I think it's harder for me to make friends. I also think men have it easier then women in a lot of ways. That's a lot of the reason I wish I was a male.

I saw this posting and was wondering what people think of our son's situation. He is 14 and has Asperger's and has been wearing a wig made out of a shirt, to make it look like he has long hair that he brushes etc. Recently, my husband and I have found him giving himself very large breasts by stuffing things in his shirt and walking around his room in front of his mirror. He sort of hides in his room with this but yesterday decided not to hide at all and we were just sort of shocked. We both sort of thought that the hair thing was a little different but we are really wondering now if he is having sexual identity issues. He has always loved girl dolls and plays with his sisters dolls all the time. Because he was taking our daughter's dolls, and really messing them up and hiding them, I decided to get him his own hair styling princess doll the other day. He was extremely happy. I told him that there is nothing wrong with liking to style hair and that there was nothing to be ashamed of. I told him that many men make a profession of doing hair and he said 'wow, really???" and I said "yes really and some even become very famous." I think this acknowledgement gave him the courage to put on the fake breast things and the hair thing without trying to hide it. Anyone ever have an experience similar to this with someone who also has Asperger's?

I used to wish I was a boy when I was younger.. I HATE dressing up, shopping, gossip, fashion.. just about everything one could consider "girly".

I love building, nerdy games, car racing, constructionwork and such things..