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Negative Body Image and Autism

Bookworm
over 5 years ago

https://kirstenlindsmith.wordpress.com/2018/08/27/body-image-and-autism/

Please see attached its an article about body image and ASC. i have a terrible body image always have but espescially my face apparently its quite common for body dysmorphia and ASDs to occur together. I'm actually following on from what trainspotter said in his thread about not liking to look in the mirror.

Any thoughts, experiences?

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  • over 5 years ago

    Yeah

    Im a woman who dons the hijab 

    And theres this 'hijabista' like modern phenomena where shes like u know be like wearing tonnes of makeup ,supercurves showin all over the place ,shes probably stick -legs too in those tight jeans

    And obviously i just cant live up to that look 

    You know? 

    Partly cuz well i dont look much (or say even close)  to that image-no matter how hard i try to

    And partly, cuz that hijab phenomana doesnt realy go with our religion ,actually. Like muslims KNOW that yeah its beautiful so yeah IF we luckily got the looks yeah we take that. But religious wise - our religion doesnt really approve of that "extravagance" so ...

    its as bad as super skinny models making u feel like so bad about the way you look 

    Only

    They have religion supposively

    So its like

    Damn ill never win.

    So 

    As a musllim woman in my hijab i feel like when i put it on like.. im a hag or like some nasty old fat woman who just doesnt know her style

    And people point it out

    So i just wanna know

    Like 

    I love me 

    My religion

    Feeling bad about me cuza them- aint about me and whats wrong with me

    It about them

    And not letting them hurt you cuz of you

    Anyone agree with me,Sarah? 

  • over 5 years ago in reply to NAS62116

    I don't know, I don't want to be controversial but do think your post deserves a reply. I wore a chaddour when I lived in Iran and it's really nice as an AS person to 'disappear' in public - but then again I don't like to be obliged to wear a garment that pins me to a particular gender. I also don't like the assumption (shared with Catholicism) that women are responsible for the sexual morality of men. On the other hand, I agree with you that pushing women to conform to a barely attainable body shape in skimpy clothing is a terrible pressure and women should have something better to do than obsess about clothes and makeup. And these contradictions will stand until we achieve gender equality (or better still get rid of it altogether).

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  • over 5 years ago in reply to NAS62116

    I don't know, I don't want to be controversial but do think your post deserves a reply. I wore a chaddour when I lived in Iran and it's really nice as an AS person to 'disappear' in public - but then again I don't like to be obliged to wear a garment that pins me to a particular gender. I also don't like the assumption (shared with Catholicism) that women are responsible for the sexual morality of men. On the other hand, I agree with you that pushing women to conform to a barely attainable body shape in skimpy clothing is a terrible pressure and women should have something better to do than obsess about clothes and makeup. And these contradictions will stand until we achieve gender equality (or better still get rid of it altogether).

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