The Trials of being a Woman with AS

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This is one of the main reasons that being a female with aspergers syndrome contributed to my transgenderism. I am now transitioning to become a male.

Now that society sees me as a male, I have to say that it is much easier being a male with aspergers than a female with aspergers. The first post is 95% true.

And men are more emotional than society is lead to believe. It is just that they are encourged to hold them in which eventually results in anger.

With my experiences, I now turn a blind eye toward gender and sex. It is such a stupid way to generalize a person.

The majority of the problems that apply to women listed in the OP also apply to men, sometimes in different ways. Why be divisive? I don't get it.

Excellent post !

I am a woman on the autistic spectrum and I have found everything you mentioned to be true in the five decades that I have spent trying to navigate through the NT world. I am not sure I would consider it harder for women than men, just hard in ways that men on the spectrum would not encounter (like the annoyance of wearing a bra or high heel shoes).

For me being on the spectrum is complicated by also having a mood disorder. I spent two years under the "care" of a psychiatrist for the mood disorder and left when it became obvious that I was becoming much worse. Since leaving I have determined that as an autistic adult I cannot trust the "treatments" that NT doctors think are just fine. I have successfully treated the mood disorder using a holistic approach that does not assault my central nervous system with psychotropic drugs.

I have found the NT world difficult to navigate for many reasons. It is too loud, too busy, with too much emphasis on social networking, for my fragile nervous system. I genuinely like being left alone, and content myself with keeping social interaction to a minimum.

If life were no more formal than khakis and a loose fitting shirt, I'd be quite happy.

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The point I'm making is not that male products themselves are a biological turn-off for women (obviously they're not as there weren't any products in primitive society), but that male vanity in general is a biological turn-off for most women (though not you apparently).

Men aren't turned off by women who are in good shape, you're right. But the point is that men don't want women who are more athletic than them, just as most women don't want men who are prettier than they are.

Again, these biological differences (men wanting pretty women; women wanting athletic men) are biologically hard-wired, and, short of artificial genetic recoding, are unlikely to EVER change, regardless of how the workplace changes. Human beings have, basically, stopped evolving, i.e. we're physically, more or less, the same as we were thousands of years ago.

People, especially women, will see me and think I need affection so they try to hug me or touch me. They will say things to me like "I'm not going to hurt you" as if I were 5 years old. If I were male I don't think I would have to deal with this type of BS.

I don't think any gender has it worse than another when it comes to Asperger's, but the OP has good points. When I was younger I would be approached by people my age and they'd want to do my makeup because I don't wear makeup. Nobody wanted anything to do with me when I was younger because I couldn't answer questions about boys, which is all they talked about along with makeup and clothes, so by their logic I was gay and to be avoided. People either see me as hateful, cold, rude or treat me like a 5 year old. I find it very difficult to be around most females because I do not understand their social dynamics.

Those are a few of the differences I've seen, but I'm sure they could be flipped and applied to males in some manner. I do know I would have likely been diagnosed sooner if I were male.