big_fat_phony wrote:
Do people think there is a link with Aspergers and homosexuality?
Maybe people find it easier to get closer to a person of the same sex?
Well, I am unsure. But I read something about this question on a swedish site, and they but it like this (and I apologize for the bad translation, I didn´t translate it myself - I let Google Translate do it):
"HETERO, HOMO, BI OR TRANS
People with Asperger's syndrome thinking differently. A positive effect of that is that they generally do not add moral aspects of sex. Social conventions and constraints get them. They fantasize and act on the basis of their internal lusts regardless of whether those of a person of the same or opposite sex.
There is no scientific evidence that people with Asperger syndrome is homo-, bi-or trans-sexual, more than the normal population. However, there is evidence that it is so.
In `Éloge de la diversité sexuelle´ (Tribute to the sexual diversity, 1999) condemns Michel Dorais sexual fundamentalism. Dorais teaches social work at Université Laval in Quebec, Canada. In his book he makes the interpreter for all those who do not fit into society's notions of what is normal.
Welcome sexual diversity
Michel Dorais message is that sexual diversity should be recognized and welcomed. He writes:
`Never has the body and the physical appearance has been so highly rated ... and yet, more and more people are experiencing sexual ambiguity. Feminine boys, masculine girls, androgyner, transvestites, transsexuals, hermaphrodite and all those for which identity is much more than a question of standards. Individuals are taking precedence, with their stories, experiences and peculiarities. Why try to catch them in a sexual standard?´
The description is also in many with Asperger's syndrome. They are attracted first by the foremost of a person's personality and qualities. If there is a man or woman has no meaning. They regard themselves as bisexual, gay or sexually ambivalent, that is, preference-free. Homo-and hetero sexual behavior exist simultaneously. Fantasy revolves around the sexual situation, not the partner's gender.
On the whole characterized aspergares sex life of openness and flexibility.
Dual exclusion
Back of the coin is that broadmindedness unit in terms of sexual diversity can be an additional burden in a society permeated by the hetero norm. To have Asperger's syndrome and abnormal sexuality involves a double alienation.
The report on sexual orientation and disability, Sisu 2005, states the researcher Ulrika Dahl stated that there is hardly any comprehensive knowledge of how the situation looks from the people who have a disability and is homo-, bi-, or transsexuals, LGBT. The issue of sexual orientation have been made invisible in the disability movement, and awareness of disability has been absent in the LGBT movement.
Disability research has assumed a heterosexual norm, while the research on sexual diversity assumed that LGBT people have no disability. Both LGBT people and people with disabilities are sometimes treated badly because they deviate from the norm. Omegnen can not see the whole person. Of LGBT people, many just and sexuality of the disabled people can see the only impairment. In simple terms, the perception of LGBT people sexfixerad and the perception of disabled sexblind. In the meeting with a person who is both LGBT and disabled, these views clash with the very bad treatment as a result.
It goes forward. Participation of persons with disabilities has increased and attitudes towards LGBT people has improved in recent years. Although knowledge situation is becoming better, "says Ulrika Dahl. Research on the intersection between the heterosexual norm and the norm of how the body to function begins to emerge."
For you outthere who can read swedish, you find the text right here:
http://www.autismforum.se/gn/opencms/we ... ler_trans/
I know that it is a long text, but I find it quite interesting. What do you say?