Where are all the male aspies?

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I know very, very few Asperger's women out there in real life.

You're pretty loquacious with your writing, so you must have a feminine side.

So is this woman. In fact, my Nana tells me that I'm one of the most talkative people she's ever met in her life.

Only online. In real life, I am not given many opportunities to do so. Maybe with my family.

We are all hiding in the bushes...

The female side of the gender is normally more sociable.

"Long time pa-a-ssing..."

We have two major groups: autistics and parents/reletives of autistics, in the case of the latter there is a slant towards women, a mother more likely then a father to ask about her autistic son.

Perhaps our overflow of lovely gentle ladies is due to that, but I believe the ratio is indeed even.

@OP: I was wondering the exact same thing and I was going to post a thread about it!

I thought the same. It's a bad hypothesis, though.

And the fact that a part of the users are autists or parents/relatives of autists. But still, I can't explain the ratio. The theory that it's 1/4 just for children seems to be very fitting the fact about the forum gender ratio. It's also likely that many of the people are misdiagnosing themselves.

Yep, definitely. Many people are diagnosing themselves on the basis of their social ineptitude and their high AQ score, but the AQ score average is around 30-35 of which FIVE percent of the normal control population tests at whereas the aspie population consists of .4% of the general population. That implies, there's roughly 12.5 non-aspies per aspie in that score range and I have definitely noticed a strong presence of "NTs" in the forums. Of course, that doesn't mean they're "normal", but NT nonetheless.

And, many users don't even have a diagnosis, self or otherwise (And most of whom seem to come here for socialization purposes.). For example, me. I'm getting professionally tested in a couple of months, though.

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I KNOW I have Asperger's Syndrome; I am Male; and I know I get on WrongPlanet normally once or twice a day. There's usually some topic of interest in these forums.

If it makes you feel better I will take the part of a male.

I certainly look like one.

Just joined today... male

Could you like me to that article? I'd like to read it.

I can go through your post history, but that sounds a bit stalker-ish to me. Better to just ask directly!

Unless autism is carried on the x-chromosome, I don't see why there should be a difference in sex ratio. And yes a lot of members here are probably mothers, daughters, sisters, wives who are concerned about their family or friends. I signed up for a schizophrenia forum because of my brother, a cancer support forum because of my dad. I don't think they require you to officially have the condition to post there. So the stats might not represent sex ratio IRL.

I think women in general are indeed more conversational and usually better at socializing. I mean, it is an average, individuals may vary largely from the average. I think it is no other way on the spectrum, only we all are less conversational and socialize less to the same proportion (also on average).

How many female and male aspies we see on our horizon is at least biased by the way we perceive people. For example, aspie males don't perceive females as good as males because they are usually awkward with women. This alone renders them to be biased toward knowing more male aspies around them, and it may be the same vice verse, but I'm not sure about it.