30 May 2016, 12:25 pm
I love fantasy novels! 
30 May 2016, 1:50 pm
Sweetleaf wrote:
underwater wrote:
Don't quite a lot of articles on autism in women mention that autistic girls are particularly likely to read a lot of fiction and create imaginary worlds?
Among the population as a whole, women read a lot more books than men. This could be one of those diagnostic questions that keep women from getting a diagnosis, meaning that the tests identify an extreme version of male behavior and call it an autistic trait - which it could be, but it doesn't have to.
I'm not saying that this applies to all males, which is obvious from the above replies.
The funny thing is how the diagnosticians are so unsure of what autism is that they take every trait literally
Among the population as a whole, women read a lot more books than men. This could be one of those diagnostic questions that keep women from getting a diagnosis, meaning that the tests identify an extreme version of male behavior and call it an autistic trait - which it could be, but it doesn't have to.
I'm not saying that this applies to all males, which is obvious from the above replies.
The funny thing is how the diagnosticians are so unsure of what autism is that they take every trait literally
I say that it's false autism is having 'the extreme male brain,' an outdated idea perhaps....at least that is what I dismiss it as.
Well, I'm no expert, but I agree with you
It seems unrealistic, one of those self-fulfilling prophecies - if autistics can't be feminine, no wonder they can't find any feminine autistics.
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30 May 2016, 11:00 pm
underwater wrote:
Sweetleaf wrote:
underwater wrote:
Don't quite a lot of articles on autism in women mention that autistic girls are particularly likely to read a lot of fiction and create imaginary worlds?
Among the population as a whole, women read a lot more books than men. This could be one of those diagnostic questions that keep women from getting a diagnosis, meaning that the tests identify an extreme version of male behavior and call it an autistic trait - which it could be, but it doesn't have to.
I'm not saying that this applies to all males, which is obvious from the above replies.
The funny thing is how the diagnosticians are so unsure of what autism is that they take every trait literally
Among the population as a whole, women read a lot more books than men. This could be one of those diagnostic questions that keep women from getting a diagnosis, meaning that the tests identify an extreme version of male behavior and call it an autistic trait - which it could be, but it doesn't have to.
I'm not saying that this applies to all males, which is obvious from the above replies.
The funny thing is how the diagnosticians are so unsure of what autism is that they take every trait literally
I say that it's false autism is having 'the extreme male brain,' an outdated idea perhaps....at least that is what I dismiss it as.
Well, I'm no expert, but I agree with you
It seems unrealistic, one of those self-fulfilling prophecies - if autistics can't be feminine, no wonder they can't find any feminine autistics.Well some people apparently didn't get the memo that there couldn't be feminine autistics, and others just pretended the feminine traits in some didn't exist, and no some feminine autistics have been found.
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31 May 2016, 12:18 am
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31 May 2016, 3:27 am
ZombieBrideXD wrote:
I prefer picture books, like captain underpants lol.
Is this something for you? http://userdisk.webry.biglobe.ne.jp/004 ... 209465.jpg
It's from "Miss Remarkable and her Career" by Joanna Rubin Dranger. It's perhaps for slightly older people, but the fortunate thing in life is that one does become older
She's got a couple of more books that I think are not translated to English yet, but they are very funny, about Miss Remarkable/Miss Scaredy Pants (they are the same neurotic person).
31 May 2016, 5:33 am
ZombieBrideXD wrote:
People have read fiction to me and I liked it, charlottes web
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31 May 2016, 6:31 pm
underwater wrote:
- if autistics can't be feminine, no wonder they can't find any feminine autistics.
LOL! Good one!
31 May 2016, 6:32 pm
Yes, that's a classic of circular 'reasoning'
04 Sep 2016, 5:22 am
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My vision of Hell would be to have to spend all eternity in a room with nothing but Jane Austen novels.
Oh, I agree entirely! Had to suffer Austen twice at school (O and A level) and I'd rather poke my own eyes out with a spoon than read her again.
I prefer immersive fiction that gives me a world I can wander around in: Tolkien's Middle Earth, Hope's Ruritania, Harrison's Viriconium, Martin's Westeros (and adjacent continents), Hardy's Wessex, Hugo's Paris. I'm better at understanding and 'reading' people on paper (as a historian, too, in non-fiction). You know what you're dealing with with written material, and can learn to "read between the lines" without all the distracting face-to-face stuff. And I think one of my all-time favourite Victor Hugo tragic heroes/anti-heroes is about as Aspie as it gets... Who needs 'Mr Darcy' when you could have Claude, who has his own laboratory....?! !! !
