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aspergers and gender dysmorphia

markjulips

Hi - I have a 31year old son whom I think may have a mild form Aspergers but has never been diagnosed as it never entered our heads before my neice started having "problems" with her young son and he was diagnosed with autism (which made us do a lot of reading and research with her).  My son has an extremely high IQ and always been good at mathematics and computer programming and has always had obsessions in the past which have always fizzled out when he finds another.  He finds it extremely difficult to make friends, keep a job and has always had relationships with girls but when they end he gets depressed and suicidal.

Last year he revealed he has gender dysmorphia since having counselling sessions after when a psychologist suggested his failed relationships could be because he feels uncomfortable in his male role and I am concerned that this may be yet another obsession which will be irreversible if he does become a woman.  He has now been gioven the go-ahead to take hormones after 4 hours of specialist couselling and 1 seesion with a specialist psychiatrist.

Have any other parents been through this sort of thing or do they think I am just clutching at straws and just watch him go ahead?

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    I would still say the two are very different things and that it is potentially very dangerous to delay investigating gender matters.  In my case, I can say with absolute certainty that it would have been a serious blow to be told I had to wait for an autism assessment before gender dysphoria would have been investigated: both are lengthy procedures and the delays are incredibly difficult to deal with.  From what I know, the number of "regretters" who go through sex reassignment is very small, although unfortunately some cases are very highly publicised by people who are opposed to it.

    Although I'm uncertain about certain specifics, what I'm confident I do know is that it is very unsafe to not take gender dysphoria seriously.

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    I would still say the two are very different things and that it is potentially very dangerous to delay investigating gender matters.  In my case, I can say with absolute certainty that it would have been a serious blow to be told I had to wait for an autism assessment before gender dysphoria would have been investigated: both are lengthy procedures and the delays are incredibly difficult to deal with.  From what I know, the number of "regretters" who go through sex reassignment is very small, although unfortunately some cases are very highly publicised by people who are opposed to it.

    Although I'm uncertain about certain specifics, what I'm confident I do know is that it is very unsafe to not take gender dysphoria seriously.

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