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31 May 2012, 6:46 am

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It's a biological fact that women are more sensitive which is what makes them women.


These findings have several major implications. First, sex differences in
emotional experience are not as pervasive as the stereotype suggests. Men
and women do not differ dramatic ally in their immediate reports of emotional
experience, even in contexts that are differentially relevant for men
and women (control vs. intimacy). This finding raises the possibility that
women’ s ``greater emotionality’ ’ is a culturally constructed idea, based on
observed differences in emotional expressions, differences which are
socialised from a very early age.


http://people.umass.edu/monaco/BarretRobinetal1998.pdf



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31 May 2012, 8:22 am

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Well, in relation to this why would you want a woman stuff, 'my' aspie I was talking to yesterday pointed out how he has trouble dealing with my emotional and sensitive side but that he knows that even if he wasn't an Aspie men and women tend to differ in this way anyhow. It's a biological fact that women are more sensitive which is what makes them women. So if you like women for whatever reason this is what comes with the package. And in general for biological and social reasons men tend to be put off by too much emotion and like their space, whether they are on the Spectrum or not. So it's about reaching a happy medium and accepting the fact that women are different I guess. And don't forget that opposites can attract. But maybe it would be easier to find a woman who does have more Aspie type traits if this is a big issue. In relation to your video, might I suggest without offending you that I personally would consider your attractions enhanced if you took off the hat? I would also suggest that the flag, while it is a symbol to be proud of, is somewhat intimidating in the background? I hope I'm not crossing the line making those suggestions, and I suppose other women would receive different impressions to me. You seem like a really nice and good-looking man so I wish you all luck in your quest.


It may be a biological fact that women who are fertile go through hormonal changes every month, but spend a week in my house and you might see things a little differently in regards to emotions and need for space. My fiance is very, very, very sensitive. He has all of the feminine styles of communicating and I have all of the masculine (not ALL, but most of what will be brought up in an interpersonal communications class). He was emotionally sensitive his entire childhood.

And call it me being full of Asperger's, but he wants WAY more attention from me than I want from him. I don't think it's the 'perger's, either. Ask my NT roommates. I had every intention of leaving him because I just couldn't take it and needed more space and independence, but because he loves me he was willing to work on it. :thumleft:



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31 May 2012, 8:39 am

Yeah, I stand corrected Senath! You're right, there's more diversity in the world than just stereotypes of male and female. Diverse identities too so maybe one doesn't need to try and appeal to the 'typical' female in order to date successfully. Keep the flag up, Aussie man : )



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31 May 2012, 9:20 am

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My fiance is very, very, very sensitive. He has all of the feminine styles of communicating and I have all of the masculine (not ALL, but most of what will be brought up in an interpersonal communications class). He was emotionally sensitive his entire childhood.

And call it me being full of Asperger's, but he wants WAY more attention from me than I want from him. I don't think it's the 'perger's, either. Ask my NT roommates. I had every intention of leaving him because I just couldn't take it and needed more space and independence, but because he loves me he was willing to work on it. :thumleft:

I would confirm, It isn't the AS. It was the same with my ex-husband (both of us NTs). I finally did move out (only 4 blocks away), and he was willing to work on it, for a while. But being the more "feminine" of the pair, emotionally, deeply threatened his manhood. And having to constantly shore up his ego exhausted me. Eventually he spotted something shiny and basically abandoned me. :cry:



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31 May 2012, 10:25 am

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Other one is that is a lot of fat in that chicken etc.


Lesson #1: Never mention the word "fat" in any context within 100 yards of a woman.


Pause, if its a black woman, it is ok in certain context to say "Yes, your ass looks phat in that." or so I've been told.



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31 May 2012, 11:02 am

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Senath wrote:
My fiance is very, very, very sensitive. He has all of the feminine styles of communicating and I have all of the masculine (not ALL, but most of what will be brought up in an interpersonal communications class). He was emotionally sensitive his entire childhood.

And call it me being full of Asperger's, but he wants WAY more attention from me than I want from him. I don't think it's the 'perger's, either. Ask my NT roommates. I had every intention of leaving him because I just couldn't take it and needed more space and independence, but because he loves me he was willing to work on it. :thumleft:

I would confirm, It isn't the AS. It was the same with my ex-husband (both of us NTs). I finally did move out (only 4 blocks away), and he was willing to work on it, for a while. But being the more "feminine" of the pair, emotionally, deeply threatened his manhood. And having to constantly shore up his ego exhausted me. Eventually he spotted something shiny and basically abandoned me. :cry:


I'm sorry things didn't work out. I wonder if the same would happen to me if I moved out.

One interesting thing is that his dad got remarried but is still living in his house and the wife in hers. The dad is a CPA with money so they visit each other over the week but only live together on the weekends when they go to their getaway beach house. :roll: I would LOVE that.



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31 May 2012, 6:42 pm

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Yeah, I stand corrected Senath! You're right, there's more diversity in the world than just stereotypes of male and female. Diverse identities too so maybe one doesn't need to try and appeal to the 'typical' female in order to date successfully. Keep the flag up, Aussie man : )


Well no problem for me then. Like I didn't do anything wrong. Let it be then. I'm not changing for them. Let them be acting that way so that mean its their problem.



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31 May 2012, 6:51 pm

Women are pretty easy for me to talk to. Their are more women in my family then men. So growing up with mostly women it's easy for me to talk with women. Since I grew up with a lot of women.



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31 May 2012, 6:52 pm

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My fiance is very, very, very sensitive. He has all of the feminine styles of communicating and I have all of the masculine (not ALL, but most of what will be brought up in an interpersonal communications class).



Story of my life.
I find myself reading those "What Women Wish Men Knew About Them", and casting myself as the man, my partner as the woman, usually.

I tend to wind up with Aspie-ish types, as well, so that either makes things much easier or much harder, depending on the Aspie.


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31 May 2012, 6:57 pm

The only problem I have with talking to women is that my female persona always wants to argue with them.



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31 May 2012, 7:05 pm

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Women are pretty easy for me to talk to. Their are more women in my family then men. So growing up with mostly women it's easy for me to talk with women. Since I grew up with a lot of women.


Oi! There same in my family too. Lot of women in my family and of course I am used to talking to women because I have lot of cousins are female, aunts and one sister.

This actually going to prove I am so right. Women in general who react to things are unintentional actions are appears to be immature, aggressive and not happy.



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31 May 2012, 7:07 pm

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Women are pretty easy for me to talk to. Their are more women in my family then men. So growing up with mostly women it's easy for me to talk with women. Since I grew up with a lot of women.


Oi! There same in my family too. Lot of women in my family and of course I am used to talking to women because I have lot of cousins are female, aunts and one sister.

This actually going to prove I am so right. Women in general who react to things are unintentional actions are appears to be immature, aggressive and not happy.


Depends on their personality and how they handle things.



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31 May 2012, 8:25 pm

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Joker wrote:
Women are pretty easy for me to talk to. Their are more women in my family then men. So growing up with mostly women it's easy for me to talk with women. Since I grew up with a lot of women.


Oi! There same in my family too. Lot of women in my family and of course I am used to talking to women because I have lot of cousins are female, aunts and one sister.

This actually going to prove I am so right. Women in general who react to things are unintentional actions are appears to be immature, aggressive and not happy.


Depends on their personality and how they handle things.


It may be, but their personality are great. I love them as a family. We all never had any issues in terms of saying things and stuff.

So it may be due to acknowledgement of AS? If women in general doesn't know I have AS, they are likely to see me creepy, strange and weird.