Curvy Women? Autism? How could they be possibly related?

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09 Jan 2009, 10:42 pm

I think from the study the more accurate description is that a majority of men with autistic children tend to not have a preference for body style.

in fact, that's pretty much the only accurate inference you could gain from that study. And even that would require a better sample size.


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10 Jan 2009, 8:31 am

I am the only one in my immediate family who has AS. Neither of my parents have autistic traits.

I think that the study sounds like a load of rubbish. My mum is slightly curvy. The guy doing it must have had too much time on his hands.



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12 Jan 2009, 11:18 am

based on this study, my mother was curvy when my older siblings were born, transformed herself to Olive Oyl before I was born, and became curvy again when my younger siblings were born. :roll:


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12 Jan 2009, 8:51 pm

DeanFoley wrote:
It's not that hard to believe.

I mean, physical attractiveness in the general sense does indicate a higher chance of a healthy baby, so...well, if a male picks a woman who is not generally considered attractive, he has a higher chance of fathering a child with a mental disorder.

Now, I must go before the mob descends upon me for calling autism a mental disorder and not the ultimate genetic step.


Hate to bust your bubble, but what is generally accepted by modern culture as a physically attractive figure is generally accepted by psychologists as "anorexia nervosa." While being overweight is a factor in many health issues, so is the opposite. And with modern society's emphasis on losing weight, that seems to be the "norm".


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13 Jan 2009, 1:24 am

I hate this whole women body types debate. Someone always says a mean term towards women with one body type then says a more pleasant term for the latter.

Petite women don't have little boy bodies. That is an insult to petite women and they don't have penises.


I guess alot of asian women have little boy bodies?

It seems trendy to declare what a woman's body should look like. Women come in all shapes and sizes there is no "should" have this or that body type just as not all men SHOULD be muscular. :roll:



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13 Jan 2009, 1:57 am

This is crap. My mother is curvy, I am curvy, and I remember quite a few of the women I have met in the ASD group I went to were curvy too.



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13 Jan 2009, 2:00 am

DeanFoley wrote:
It's not that hard to believe.

I mean, physical attractiveness in the general sense does indicate a higher chance of a healthy baby, so...well, if a male picks a woman who is not generally considered attractive


clearly you havent met a lot of women with aspergers. Many are attractive women.



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13 Jan 2009, 2:32 am

zen_mistress wrote:
This is crap. My mother is curvy, I am curvy, and I remember quite a few of the women I have met in the ASD group I went to were curvy too.


Agreed.

Complete and utter crap.

The problem is, people read this stuff all the time and recite it as if it's valid.



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18 Jan 2009, 1:20 pm

Maditude wrote:
based on this study, my mother was curvy when my older siblings were born, transformed herself to Olive Oyl before I was born, and became curvy again when my younger siblings were born. :roll:


:lmao: :lmao: :lmao:


As for the article: WHAT????? Get a life. Don´t they have more important things to research??? I mean, what the f-

Being a slim, petite woman myself, I´m tired of reading about how "genetically inferior" I am, supposedly....

Funny how the article blamed men, though, on not being attracted to the "right" woman. We sure live in a strange society...


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19 Jan 2009, 4:19 pm

I´ve been thinking about this since my last post, and I decided: isn´t it true that a bigger waist or smaller hips would be more related to actual bone structure, than to hormones? Is there really any definitive proof that women with a certain shape are more fertile, or have healthier babies??? I keep reading this, and it´s stated over and over again as if it were fact, and yet I have never seen any proof- like in the way of scientific studies- that curvy women have healthier babies. Sure, they´ve done studies about what kind of women men are attracted to- but why assume the reason automatically? I think many men tend to be attracted to the traits in women that make them DIFFERENT from men- hence, the bigger hips and smaller waist. (And bigger breasts, and so on and so forth).


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21 Jan 2009, 4:21 am

This study is so full of holes it looks like Swiss cheese.

If only I had some bread and roast beef to go with it, then I could open my own deli!


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21 Jan 2009, 4:39 am

It's BS! I am skinny and have a curvy figure. However, I knew a AS girl that was skinny and straight up and down - complete opposite.
Downs Syndrome people have similar looks - never heard that for AS though.



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21 Jan 2009, 2:05 pm

My family doesn't fit that study. Neither do I, for that matter. I have curves.


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21 Jan 2009, 4:09 pm

i really don't see how this is relevant at all...and how exactly are they defining 'curvy'? that is a vague description. 'curvy' could mean anything, really.



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21 Jan 2009, 6:03 pm

I just want to add that I like women either way, though I have a soft spot for certain curves. It would be nice if they clarified what they meant by "curvy".

But I also like guys, with no particular preference for their curviness. I wonder what they'd say about that.


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23 Jan 2009, 1:13 am

Let's see...

(disregarding the article for a second because it's from the daily mail and they're one step away from posting articles about Lizard babies and whatnot)

I have Aspergers because my dad does. My mom's straight up and down hips are irrelevant.

Now my paternal grandmother? Hourglass figure.

There. I just blew a big, fat hole through their precious science.