Published on 12, July, 2020
I am still without a formal diagnosis, though I have an informal "pre-assessment".
I've had Gender Dysphoria thoughts for over 20 years. They sort of come and go in waves, except they're not so much dysphoric about my current gender, as they are a wanting to become the opposite gender.
I need to work out where these feelings come from. With the fact that I do indeed appear to have a pre-assessment informal diagnosis of Aspergers, I need to work out whether this fascination with gender identity is just a special interest/obsession, or whether it is genuine.
Unfortunately I don't think a lot of gender therapists are in the best position to work that one out.
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Is this because ASD people tend to have an open mind and are willing to explore what feels right or are more able to feel what is wrong?
I am finding the transgender half way measure that is Non Binary is a very good space for exploring different states for stripped of gender and all that entails, one can just feel.
You do know intersex people exists don't you, to form roughly 1.6% of the population to be about as common as red headed people?
Well by the very nature of a person being between sexes means the binary can't apply for that enforced perhaps conditioned binary to in fact be a bifurcation fallacy given intersex.
And something else that might interest, Baron-Cohen investigated the most common form of intersex, the xxy (1:650) of which is more common with the male phenotype for work on his x-linked theory of autism. Where it just so happens the majority of xxy's I have known where we're talking hundreds here also have a prior diagnosis of high functioning autism.
In fact it was through reading Baron-Cohen's theories on autism post ASC diagnosis that I discovered an intersex condition I later came to be diagnosed with, for I am one of those xxy's
Never heard the phrase before - but on googling it, I understand it - why?
Have you heard of the bifurcation fallacy?
Cool - I know a lot of people who live alternative lifestyles where they realised 'the norm' was not for them but they don't really identify with the usual prescribed definitions - and there's a lot of pressure to be one thing or another - sort of not being accepted as bi in a gay or straight world.