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26 Jul 2017, 1:56 am

Why Are Autism Symptoms Different In Women

Answer by Natalie Engelbrecht, Registered Psychotherapist, Naturopathic Doctor, and Researcher, on Quora:

Dr. Engelbrecht gives sourced detail for each if the following catagories
Lack of Diagnoses
Alternate Diagnosis
Different Neurology
Masking Autism
Empathetic
Sexual Exploitation
Loneliness

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26 Jul 2017, 2:55 am

ASPartOfMe wrote:

Very interesting article.

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26 Jul 2017, 4:25 am

Thanks

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26 Jul 2017, 8:19 am

Because it was my mother who had AS instead of my father, I also got an attachment disorder. Her intolerance for noise and interruptions made her an unsuitable parent. Her AS dad, OTOH, had parlayed his eccentricities into being a better than average provider. I'm sure that such patterns are why Ma Nature usually experiments on men.

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26 Jul 2017, 12:15 pm

Interesting article. I especially found the thing about women being more likely to be diagnosed the lower-functioning they are fascinating. I was diagnosed very early with PDD-NOS and then later HFA, fortunately, but I know a lot of people who aren't as fortunate.

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26 Jul 2017, 12:40 pm

I hate this article immediately for using the phrase "autistic symptoms", as if it's some kind of disease. It's autistic traits, not symptoms.

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27 Jul 2017, 12:22 pm

https://www.scientificamerican.com/arti ... -in-girls/ - the Quora article is this, in effect.

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27 Jul 2017, 12:37 pm

Leeds_Demon wrote:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autism-it-s-different-in-girls/ - the Quora article is this, in effect.

I wish I knew why every study shows significant differences in male and female brains, yet Feminists insist that people are completely interchangeable except for gestation ability.

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29 Jul 2017, 12:12 am

Dear_one wrote:

Leeds_Demon wrote:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/autism-it-s-different-in-girls/ - the Quora article is this, in effect.

I wish I knew why every study shows significant differences in male and female brains, yet Feminists insist that people are completely interchangeable except for gestation ability.

I'm sure there are people who are feminists who insist this but most feminists probably do not. It's speculated the females with AS have brains more similar to that of NT males, and I would agree that is likely the case for my brain. So as an exception to the typical female, I do not appreciate when people attempt to tell me I am a way I am not or like things I don't like.

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01 Aug 2017, 11:48 pm

I never really relate to the articles I read about women on the autism spectrum. Not saying they're invalid, just that I don't relate. I don't think I mask; what you see is what you get. Nor am I am an empath; if anything, affective empathy is something I really struggle with. I would never do harm on anyone else, but I can't read emotions well, and I can "feel" other people's emotions even less so. I generally connect much more to men in general, and autistic males' experiences more than autistic females'.

That said, it's a spectrum, so I may just be an outlier in this regard.

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02 Aug 2017, 11:53 am

That was a very good read. Thank you for sharing the article. I'm also bothered with the word, symptoms. I like the word , traits better.

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02 Aug 2017, 12:33 pm

oddnumberedcat wrote:

I'm empathetic to the point it's painful/uncomfortable but I also identify and connect much more with men. Not sure about autistic males vs. females. I tend to find more familiarity and common ground with men in most cases though.

But anyway, it seems like we're all still individuals personality-wise so there will always be some variations amongst us, which keeps things interesting.

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02 Aug 2017, 2:01 pm

My Aspie mother seemed rather unhappy with the limited role for women in the armed forces, so she took on motherhood after the war as the easiest work available. However, her heart wasn't in family life at all, and so I got a severe attachment disorder along with the AS.

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03 Aug 2017, 3:52 pm

Dear_one wrote:

I'm sorry your mother was not able to meet her full responsibilities as a mother. Every child deserves parents who provide for them both in terms of resources, and emotionally, and who foster an environment in which that child can thrive and develop into a healthy person. Unfortunately, in the past, many women felt they had no choice but to become mothers, or actually had no choice, despite the fact that many weren't cut out for it.

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03 Aug 2017, 3:56 pm

If I have autism at all it's the female kind :roll:

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03 Aug 2017, 5:10 pm

Chronos wrote:

Dear_one wrote:

Both parents did pretty well on the responsibilities they knew about, but they were trying to look normal for their parents and friends, and were from different dysfunctional backgrounds in a brand-new post-war situation. They had to fake it a lot, and give up on the weird kid.

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