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Male-Femal differences in experiencing life with Aspergers?

Technophobe23

I have been looking on Youtube at videos about Aspergers. I have found a few interesting videos (and a larger number of uninteresting or downright annoying ones!).

Among the most interesting so far, to me, is one called: "Adult Female Asperger's Traits" - don't know if it will paste, but here's an attempt to paste the link:- 

www.youtube.com/watch

It seems to have worked.  Well my reason for having found this so interesting is that I found myself recognizing very many of the 'traits' listed throughout the 4 minutes or so of the video.  Not all of them, but a large majority of them really did ring true.  I am not female though, I am a 55 year old male who has recentyl started the process of being diagnosed. I am now wondering whether (a) it is not meaningful to split AS traits into male / femal, as they are common regardless of gender, or (b) whether I am unusual in having highly female characteristics.

Anyone got any knowedge or thougts on this?

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    A difference between the hidden disorder like Aspergers and being blind or deaf is that Aspergers is a hidden problem but being blind or deaf is very clearly evident to all concerened. People with ASD often suspect that they are somehow different from an early age and I think that some people decide that feeling "different" means that they have a different sexual orientation as this is more prevalent in society. I don't think delusional sexual orientation is a recognised term but I think that Longman means that in some cases people sexual orientation is a product of thought rather than of some biological imperative.

    Males and females with ASD must both have the common problems of ASD and I would suspect that this is primarily what you recognised. it is a spectrum disorder so it affects everyone differently so you might recognise elements of a female's problems and other elements from another male's problems.

    There is another issue that we find it particularly difficult to understand what goes on in other people's heads so it is more difficult for us to know whether we are more or less similar to other people. How do I know that your experience is the same or different to mine? I'm not sure I have good enough imagination to really have a reliable view on that.

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    A difference between the hidden disorder like Aspergers and being blind or deaf is that Aspergers is a hidden problem but being blind or deaf is very clearly evident to all concerened. People with ASD often suspect that they are somehow different from an early age and I think that some people decide that feeling "different" means that they have a different sexual orientation as this is more prevalent in society. I don't think delusional sexual orientation is a recognised term but I think that Longman means that in some cases people sexual orientation is a product of thought rather than of some biological imperative.

    Males and females with ASD must both have the common problems of ASD and I would suspect that this is primarily what you recognised. it is a spectrum disorder so it affects everyone differently so you might recognise elements of a female's problems and other elements from another male's problems.

    There is another issue that we find it particularly difficult to understand what goes on in other people's heads so it is more difficult for us to know whether we are more or less similar to other people. How do I know that your experience is the same or different to mine? I'm not sure I have good enough imagination to really have a reliable view on that.

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