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FlySwine
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05 Feb 2018, 6:05 pm

Are women with asd usually significantly taller than average?
To me it seems so



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05 Feb 2018, 6:20 pm

Can't say that I've noticed that.

I'm a short, Aspie-like guy.

I've known short women on the Autistic Spectrum---and tall women, too.



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06 Feb 2018, 10:32 am

Well all diagnosed autistic women I've met (as far as I know) face to face have been taller than the average adult woman where I come from, but since I've only met a few that's not really a reliable source of information... not to mention "average height" is different in different places.



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06 Feb 2018, 11:14 am

I don’t think there’s a correlation between height and autism in women, but I have always considered to be tall. As a child I was the tallest first grader in my class, at 130 cm, and now I’m still rather tall, but more near the average. I’m 170 cms tall, but I’m my father’s shortest child (my brother is 180, my sister 175, and my father is 196 cms tall). And I’m the only one in my family with diagnosed ASD.


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06 Feb 2018, 11:39 am

I'm only about five feet tall.


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06 Feb 2018, 11:57 am

I knew a girl named Kaeti in high school. She was not Aspie. She was about 5 foot 9 inches tall.



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06 Feb 2018, 1:57 pm

I am 167 cm tall, this is average height. My NT sister is taller than me. As a child I was the smallest in my class.


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06 Feb 2018, 2:07 pm

LOL....If you were the smallest in you class, you're around lots of tall people.

I am a man, and I'm 164.5 cm tall.



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06 Feb 2018, 6:04 pm

I grew up a lot when I was 16-17 years old. Before that I was very small. To my 15 years of age I couldn't sit in the car in the front seat (limit 150 cm and age 12 years).


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06 Feb 2018, 6:13 pm

kraftiekortie wrote:
I knew a girl named Kaeti in high school. She was not Aspie. She was about 5 foot 9 inches tall.


Well, take an inch off, and that's my height (5 foot 8 inches).

A website that may be of interest to people: http://www.tallerheels.co.uk/am-i-tall.html


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06 Feb 2018, 6:17 pm

Definitely not.


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06 Feb 2018, 6:58 pm

My growth was stunted thanks to ARFID, so I only ended up five foot one inch.


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06 Feb 2018, 6:59 pm

5 foot 1 is not particularly short. It's a pretty common height for women.

My mother is 5 foot 1.

It's like being about 5 foot 6 for a man, I feel.



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07 Feb 2018, 12:32 am

I'm short enough that getting things off shelves is a pain.



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07 Feb 2018, 6:24 am

I’m only 164 cm tall.


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07 Feb 2018, 10:31 am

That's about average for a woman. That's about 5 foot 4.

I'm only a half centimeter taller than you; and I'm a man.