Sunny55 wrote:
No, I don't hate Aspie men. I belong to an AS support group and most of the others in the group are men. I like them all, some more than others, as would be usual in any social group.
I belong to an ASD support group as well, and I don't hate the men, though naturally I like some of them better than others.
We did find, though, that we wanted to start a separate women's-only group, which has been going strong for two and a half years now, because we found that some of the women were not getting heard, and were made uncomfortable by what I shall call the unwanted romantic interest expressed by a handful (a dedicated and consistent handful) of the men. This, of course, makes ASD men no different, except perhaps in degree, from men everywhere. It also felt different because the meetings were/are intended to be a safe space to be ourselves.
As someone noted, societal expectations for women and men are so different that it has often seemed to me that any mixed group has to watch itself so that it doesn't end up playing out a me-Tarzan-you-Jane group dynamic.
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