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Autism and gender identity

violetdr3amer

I just came across this article and it got me thinking...

https://www.aane.org/gendervague-intersection-autistic-trans-experiences/

I saw some stats somewhere a while ago, which show that quite a lot of people on the spectrum are trans or identify as non-binary/gender-fluid. Quite a lot of us are gender non-conforming, or we don't identify to our assigned gender role.

I'm a woman but I've been told many times that I "act like a bloke", and from my observations/in my opinion, NTs are much more gender-stereotyped and conform more to societal gender roles.

Thoughts?

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  • SpaceOctopus said:
    So far as I understand (and experience) it, autism interacts with a variety of other conditions (to name just two it could be anxiety or a learning disability etc.)  to create a fundamentally new experience which cannot be reduced to either autism or anxiety, for instance.

    Actually yes they can. Symptom => Cause. For things to exist they must have clear definitions or otherwise they don't exist. That's the point. If these conditions couldn't be defined by their presentation there would be no condition as there would be no definition. These aren't things that exist in an entangled quantum state that can't be separated they can and are. The difficult thing which is obvious from reading posts on this site is telling what causes what and hence knowing what is autism and what is not.

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  • SpaceOctopus said:
    So far as I understand (and experience) it, autism interacts with a variety of other conditions (to name just two it could be anxiety or a learning disability etc.)  to create a fundamentally new experience which cannot be reduced to either autism or anxiety, for instance.

    Actually yes they can. Symptom => Cause. For things to exist they must have clear definitions or otherwise they don't exist. That's the point. If these conditions couldn't be defined by their presentation there would be no condition as there would be no definition. These aren't things that exist in an entangled quantum state that can't be separated they can and are. The difficult thing which is obvious from reading posts on this site is telling what causes what and hence knowing what is autism and what is not.

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