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11 Nov 2019, 9:52 am

I'm asexual/aromantic/agender.

My body is just a life-support system for my brain.


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11 Nov 2019, 10:31 am

XFilesGeek wrote:
I'm asexual/aromantic/agender.

My body is just a life-support system for my brain.



I like this.


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12 Nov 2019, 4:39 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:
rowan_nichol wrote:
Spede wrote:
Can autistic individual be transgender?

If so, how many transgenders are also on The spectrum?


My dear Spede,
Perhaps you could afford me and my tribe the courtesy of referring to us by a more respectful term , such as transgender people, rather than the term "Transgenders" which is one which does you no service, making you come across as rude and someone who might view me and other of my tribe as not people.



I as an outsider truly do not understand why "transgenders" is considered rude and transphobic. The terms "Whites", "blacks", "Jews" etc are not generally considered offensive. I use the term "autistics" all the time on Wrong Planet as a descriptor not as an insult.

Good morning,

Where "Transgengers" fails as a term is a name given to us be others. It is also a rather ugly forcing an adjective to be a nown.

It grates also because not everyone who usets the word about us does with good intent. A comparison might be how the word "Coloured or Coloureds" has been used tiwarfs black people, one thinks of states which practiced srgregstion and jim Crow laws, or the use of Blacks and Coloureds in apartheid ers South Africa.

It frames its description in a way to play diwn or ignore being a person.

It also reminds me that I use "Neurotypicals" far to much in framing my thoughts, again ignoring the petson bit



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12 Nov 2019, 10:34 am

Yes, although therapists have to be careful with us autistics. I am also a trans woman and from what I've read or heard in conferences, more specifically Dr. Atwood, whom I thing is making a mistake on that matter, we are at a higher risk of making a mistake when transitioning. A lot of his autistic transitioning patients will feel like they belong to the other (physical) gender because their personality is atypical to their age/gender peer. Like the very sensitive boy or tomboy girl. Someone who has a typical case of gender dysphoria (yes I know that term is not used anymore) will typically just know that something is wrong with their physical gender.

I'm not saying they someone who isn't presenting as atypically trans will make a mistake, but be carefull.

So I guess I started ranting :) In short yes it might be the case, but the above might provide in part, some explanations.