Published on 12, July, 2020
Please know that I'm not writing this to be deliberately inflammatory or provocative, or to have a go at anyone here, but I just feel so isolated as an Autistic woman. Most other Autistic people I've engaged with are men, and seem to have quite a different presentation and outlook on life to me. They are often very blunt, whereas I'm not. When I get emotional, they don't seem to understand - I've been accused of 'emotionally exploding', for example, simply for expressing that I felt uncomfortable with a conversation. It's more than that, though, to be honest I'm finding it quite hard to explain in logical terms...I just don't feel I fit in in the Autism world or the neurotypical world, and I'm wondering if this is because I'm female. Does anyone else feel this way?
I'm female, and there are certainly more of us on here. I'm still waiting for my assessment. Women generally don't present the same way as men. When I first found out that I was likely to be on the spectrum, it was through a counsellor. I then started reading about it, and it took a lot of time before I began to get to the experiences of women on the spectrum. Before then, I was quite confused by what my counsellor had seen as I thought I was 'normal', and I just kind of sucked at life.