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09 Aug 2005, 3:39 pm

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/08/08/ ... dbaron.php

Found this news article and thought you all might be interested. :wink:



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09 Aug 2005, 5:46 pm

I've found the article very interesting. I've always felt like a Male trapped in a Female body. Now I know why.



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09 Aug 2005, 6:37 pm

CockneyRebel wrote:
I've found the article very interesting. I've always felt like a Male trapped in a Female body. Now I know why.


Same here... it doesn't help when your partner asks. "Could you possibly be any less feminine?"



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09 Aug 2005, 7:48 pm

I'm not sure what I think of this article. On the one hand, I have a fair amount of non-feminine characteristics. But what I want more than anything else is to be feminine, graceful, etc. And I am also very female in the ways I approach relationships, etc.



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09 Aug 2005, 11:21 pm

I never got along with any of the girls in kindergarten. I always went to the sandbox with the boys, where we tried to get to the bottom of the sandbox. We succeeded. Also, in most arguments I observe between females and males in fiction or real life, I tend to agree with the male in the argument. Maybe this is why my sisters thought that I agreed with anything my dad said, even though that was a highly inaccurate statement.

I first heard of this idea when I was a library aide for an elective in eighth grade and I was replacing the old Newsweek with a more updated copy and paused to read an article about it. Very fascinating.


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10 Aug 2005, 12:57 am

I didn't read it because it seemed really long and I don't like reading much off a screen.. but looking at the replies, I can't say it really applies to me.

When I was a kid I always wore shorts and T-shirts, never cared about my apperance, but I played girly games. I think that's just what people did though.. I mean no-one ever dressed up like 10-going on-25 in those days.

As I got older I started to love feminine things. Whether it is just an effect society had on me, or not, who knows.

I'm pretty sure my pupils dilate though when I see anything pink, glittery or lacy.

I've always gotten on with girls better than guys. I don't undrestand guys, and I'm bisexual so that might have something to do with my lack of interest in males.



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10 Aug 2005, 2:14 am

In arguments, males tend to be more logical. Unless they are my step-dad.



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10 Aug 2005, 6:26 am

renaeden wrote:
In arguments, males tend to be more logical. Unless they are my step-dad.


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:



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10 Aug 2005, 4:03 pm

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Third, when we look at brain activity with magnetic resonance imaging, males and females on average show different patterns while performing empathizing or systemizing tasks. But both mothers and fathers of children with autism show strong male patterns of brain activity.


So he's saying that my mom thinks more like a man than most other women? This seems believable, to a cetain extent.

I agree with the "It's genetic, blah blah blah" theory, but I also believe that AS can be dormant and then brought out by environmnetal causes. I wasn't AS enough to be even considered for dx until I hit puberty and my parents divorced at around the same time. Stress gave me AS, or at least made it more obvious I had it.


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10 Aug 2005, 4:16 pm

hale_bopp wrote:
I didn't read it because it seemed really long and I don't like reading much off a screen.. but looking at the replies, I can't say it really applies to me.

When I was a kid I always wore shorts and T-shirts, never cared about my apperance, but I played girly games. I think that's just what people did though.. I mean no-one ever dressed up like 10-going on-25 in those days.

As I got older I started to love feminine things. Whether it is just an effect society had on me, or not, who knows.

I'm pretty sure my pupils dilate though when I see anything pink, glittery or lacy.

I've always gotten on with girls better than guys. I don't undrestand guys, and I'm bisexual so that might have something to do with my lack of interest in males.



Me too exactly!! Except I'm not bisexual, and my favorite color is purple :wink:



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10 Aug 2005, 9:37 pm

I am not very feminine. However, I am transgendered and lesbian, so...

I suspect these qualities are due more to my sexual preference and genetics linked to this and less so Aspergers.


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14 Aug 2005, 12:51 am

In some ways it makes sense, but I don't see how that would account for everything, such as our sensory processing and sensory sensitivities.



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15 Aug 2005, 9:03 am

CockneyRebel wrote:
I've found the article very interesting. I've always felt like a Male trapped in a Female body. Now I know why.


Ditto - until recently when I figured I do like being female just thought the social stuff would be easier if i was a guy (i realise thats probably totally untrue!)



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15 Aug 2005, 12:13 pm

This is weird... I've always liked the more feminine things...but being a guy I haven't been able to explore them... (society's rules suck)...

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15 Aug 2005, 5:35 pm

http://www.wrongplanet.net/modules.php? ... 4&start=15

I'm a fairly female-like male.


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15 Aug 2005, 8:41 pm

Smiley wrote:
Ditto - until recently when I figured I do like being female just thought the social stuff would be easier if i was a guy (i realise thats probably totally untrue!)


Wow... I've often thought social stuff would be easier if I were female, having many examples of it working, around me (my 2 sisters and mother)...

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