snake321 wrote:
See, but you have a husband, as do most of the females on here, either have a husband or a boyfriend. Not so with most of the guys, I can think of maybe 1 guy who is married on here.
Generally speaking, women with AS have different traits and different needs than men with AS. We live in a society that makes certain allowances for women who stay at home and keep house for their husbands. Aspie girls who would otherwise not function highly in the world alone learn this lesson very early, and realize that finding a husband may be our only way of living a semi-normal life. If we're lucky, then we will find the right man and end up more-or-less-happily married, which allows us to live in a way that actually uses our AS traits to advantage. For me, my marriage is much more than just a matter of love (although it is that, too). It is a matter of survival. It is necessary to me to stay safe and relatively sane. Without my husband I would be much lower-functioning and maybe not even alive right now. My point is, yes, it's partly cultural, but also when something is a matter of your instinct for self-preservation, there is no question of making it happen. You just have to.