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Gender Dysphoria

Tish

I'm 51 and was diagnosed with ASD at 49.

While discussing sexuality the other day, my daughters and I were trying to convince my (male) partner that transgenderism is a real thing and not a fad. During the conversation I said that when I thought about it I didn't feel specifically female, despite being assigned so at birth. The more I think about it the more I think that I am gender dysphoric. I have never felt particularly feminine, although I'm certainly not masculine either. If anything I think I've always thought that I'm a bit above all that! Does anybody empathise? I see that there might be a link between autism and gender dysphoria on this web site.

If I'm gender dysmorphic how could I not have noticed? I was shocked at my ASD diagnosis too, so is being wholly un-self aware an autistic thing as well?!

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  • generally no one thinks about gender or bothers about it, you just are you, and your gender doesnt really come in your mind anywhere in who you are, people are not defined by their gender, so when these people come along and preach their new age religion it catches you that way, because they phrase it in a way in which gender defines you, to them gender is everything, the focus point... to a normal person gender doesnt define you and its nothing, its like, i have a hand, thats not important.... but some charlattan comes along and makes having a hand be the defining thing of your existance and makes you think about it and feel weird because they are weird for making that so much of a defining focus.

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  • generally no one thinks about gender or bothers about it, you just are you, and your gender doesnt really come in your mind anywhere in who you are, people are not defined by their gender, so when these people come along and preach their new age religion it catches you that way, because they phrase it in a way in which gender defines you, to them gender is everything, the focus point... to a normal person gender doesnt define you and its nothing, its like, i have a hand, thats not important.... but some charlattan comes along and makes having a hand be the defining thing of your existance and makes you think about it and feel weird because they are weird for making that so much of a defining focus.

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