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DemophobicKlingon
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12 Jan 2020, 7:05 am

I do know some tiny females on the spectrum.

Some other females who are tall and skinny, and other females who are the opposite of tiny. I wouldn't describe myself as tiny. I don't think size really correlates to being on the spectrum.


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12 Jan 2020, 8:33 am

It sure doesn’t.....



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12 Jan 2020, 11:51 am

I'm not tall, only about five feet, but I wouldn't say I've ever been "tiny" personally. I was always a bit chubby as a child and I put on a lot of weight as a teenager and I'm honestly very overweight currently.


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12 Jan 2020, 12:25 pm

Fnord wrote:
That's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon in action -- a cognitive bias that inflates the importance of recent stimuli or observations. This increases the chances of being more aware of the subject when we encounter it again in the near future. It's like when you buy a certain pair of shoes and suddenly see them everywhere.

Some people who have been recently diagnosed as being on the ASD spectrum will begin to see "Aspies" everywhere, and wrongly claim that they have suddenly developed some kind of "Aspiedar".


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12 Jan 2020, 1:33 pm

I'm not. I'm 5 foot 10.



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12 Jan 2020, 5:13 pm

I'm slender but about average height (5'5.5"). None of the females in my social skills group, which primarily consists of people on the autism spectrum, are what I would call "tiny," although there are some taller than me and some shorter than me, with a fairly large range of weights. Based on the sample of people in the group, I can't really draw any conclusions about any particular body type being more common among autistic females or autistics in general.


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12 Jan 2020, 11:51 pm

DemophobicKlingon wrote:
I do know some tiny females on the spectrum.

Some other females who are tall and skinny, and other females who are the opposite of tiny. I wouldn't describe myself as tiny. I don't think size really correlates to being on the spectrum.

Why are so many autistic people either skinny or overweight especially aspies 0.0



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13 Jan 2020, 2:00 am

My AS mother shopped at Tall Gals'. My NT sister is a foot shorter than I.