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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'm really not trying to dismiss or invalidate your experience. If 20% regret the change then it suggests that 80% are happy with it and you are part of that majority. The problem is that the change is drastic and difficult (impossible?) to reverse so the impact is not trivial.

    All I am suggesting is that people address the autism first. People then have a choice as to whether to pursue the transsexual change. If you do it the other way round then I believe that some people would work out how to live with autism and then decide that they no longer want to make the other change.

    Which reporting of this issue is fair and balanced? I chose the Graun rather than Daily Mail but do you have a better impartial source of views?

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    I'm really not trying to dismiss or invalidate your experience. If 20% regret the change then it suggests that 80% are happy with it and you are part of that majority. The problem is that the change is drastic and difficult (impossible?) to reverse so the impact is not trivial.

    All I am suggesting is that people address the autism first. People then have a choice as to whether to pursue the transsexual change. If you do it the other way round then I believe that some people would work out how to live with autism and then decide that they no longer want to make the other change.

    Which reporting of this issue is fair and balanced? I chose the Graun rather than Daily Mail but do you have a better impartial source of views?

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