• Replies 4 replies
  • Subscribers 79 subscribers
  • Views 1229 views
  • Users 0 members are here
Options
Related
Hints and tips
  • To quote someone's message, first select/highlight the relevant text, and then use the Quote button that appears
  • To "mention" someone, type @ followed by the start of the forum name, and choose from the list; that person will get a notification of being mentioned

Need for women only Asperger groups

Hope

All the groups that I attend, as a young woman with Asperger's, are made up of middle aged men. The young women who did attend have since left, probably because the groups were, and are, so male dominated. It would not even be so bad if some of the men were in their teens or 20s, but they are mostly 30 years and older. In any event, it puts me off attending these groups without any of my peers being there, i.e. women; even if they were somewhat older than me, it would be better than no women!

There has got to be more women out there with Asperger's, but they don't seem to attend many of the groups. There was just one group I attended that started off with, believe it or not, more women than men, but this did not last, and there is now two women to 8 men!

I cannot relate to these men with Asperger's. They are not young like me, they don't share my interests, they are too serious, and they leave me feeling even more isolated.

So I think it would be good if an all female Asperger group were set up, with a particular emphasis on women age 18-30. But where are they?

Parents

  • After years of always having a feeling like I was different and never fitting in with my peers at school, I was finally diagnosed with having Aspergers Syndrome last year. I don't know any other girls or women with the condition and would be more inclined to go to a group if I wasn't so scared that it'd be full of men. I think a lot of it has got something to do with the fact that less women are diagnosed and I've already found that a lot of people seem to think it's a 'boy thing'.

    I think that AS is slightly different in how it exhibitsn itself in males and females and I'd be a lot more comfortable going to a support group where I was with people who might have more understanding of what I was going through.

Reply

  • After years of always having a feeling like I was different and never fitting in with my peers at school, I was finally diagnosed with having Aspergers Syndrome last year. I don't know any other girls or women with the condition and would be more inclined to go to a group if I wasn't so scared that it'd be full of men. I think a lot of it has got something to do with the fact that less women are diagnosed and I've already found that a lot of people seem to think it's a 'boy thing'.

    I think that AS is slightly different in how it exhibitsn itself in males and females and I'd be a lot more comfortable going to a support group where I was with people who might have more understanding of what I was going through.

Children
No Data