Do you find this happens?

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Okay i do not mean to offend anyone by this question.

I myself am on the spectrum but do you find sometimes that as a male your behaviour is more acceptable for a women? For example being overly sensitive to critisicm becuase of teasing by other guys. Most NT guys just shrugg of insults, teasing and male joshing but sometimes guys with aspergers tend to act overly defensive and get upset like a girl would. A guy who behaves this way will be mocked by both men and women but not so if your a girl. In fact guys usually have no mercy or do not hold back saying what they think when joshing around with other men. I find guys avoid saying the wrong thing to women as not to set them off. Likewise girls also avoid saying the wrong things to other girls. If your a male though both girls and boys will tease you about certain aspects related to you.

Its like men are expected just let insults go out one ear and out the ohter.

Do you kind of agree with me or not that if your an Aspie its hard to adapt to being a male and the male way of life?

As far as accepting criticism or not, I only go on the defensive if I feel the person is attacking me or my position/action/whatever. If that person uses tact and constructive criticism I'm just fine. As for filling the male role, I've never thought I'd done anything but.

I think it actually goes both ways. Autistic people seem either more likely to have, or less likely to mask, certain traits that are culturally considered atypical or "not right" for whatever gender we're assigned. It goes for men and women both. As an autistic woman I often get seen as actually male even though I've got huge breasts, and when I'm seen as a woman I get considered to have "male" traits.

The main difference is that since women are less valued than men, a man having "female" traits is less socially acceptable than a woman having "male" traits. A woman having "male" traits can be seen as "a step up" in some ways. A man having "female" traits, that's one of the worst things a man can be accused of at least in the USA.

(Personally I don't consider myself to have a gender at all, so it is all very confusing to me keeping track of which traits are supposedly male and which are supposedly female.)

I know that the more often people see me cry over something or that I lose my cool with someone, the more likely they are to treat me like a child....

When I was a kid, because I was quiet and gentle, the neighbour told my mother that I "should" have been a girl.

I get told I'm overreacting all the time and I'm a girl. It's no less for females with autism than it is for males. We all get treated the same.