Recently, due to reasons I will not divulge yet. I have been doing research on Autism. When I was researching I noticed a lot of the articles and reports were written from the view of a cismale.
I wish there was more information out there for people of all genders as it just seems as though there is barely any.
Edit: I have updated the terminology I used in the OP, sorry if it offended anybody but I wrote this when I was still pretty misinformed on what terms are prefered, I hope it’s sorted now but feel free to pick me up on anything I super don’t mind!
You can ask me and @line123462 since we are both females with autism. We are both on the mild side.
I was diagnosed with Asperger’s at a very young age. I couldn’t speak at all when I was around 2-3 years old because of speech delay so speech therapist told my parents that I am better off speaking English in general because I am very likely to respond in English than in Bengali.
From primary school to college years, I have been getting help from other teaching assistants as they have to stay with me in every lesson to help me with the work.
If you need more information about Females with Autism, I recommend this book called Aspergirls by Rudy Simone. The author explains everything about autism such as traits, sensory, solitude and so on. You can find it on eBay or Amazon
There are so many stupid misconceptions I have heard as a woman with Asperger’s like:
You don’t look autistic
Stop flapping your hands/touching your face
But you’re so nice
I’m glad I don’t have Autism
Keep your Asperger’s to yourself
Another big misconception is when people think Aspies are not empathetic. That’s nonsense! I may not be sweet but you should see how empathetic I am towards most people. Also, I am very selective with who I want to get a long well with.
Here’s a link to more information about Women with Asperger’s:
I also recommend reading Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time by Mark Hodden. It’s about a boy who has Asperger’s and he gets falsely accused of killing a dog.
the reason autism in male’s is been mention more is because autism speaks(one of the biggest autism charity groups) in very long time denied that girls could be autistic and many girls still has to listen no she cant be be autistic its a boy dieases. also autism is not dieases. do not compare it to a dieasie. we are not sick we do not need a cure. if you wanna compare autism to something compare it to been gay. we are going through a lot of the same thing for something we are born as.
also Autism speaks is the abselout worst. first of all they claim to talk for autism when infact they dont listen to autistic people at all and dont have any autistic people with them. that would be like black rigts with out black people. they also sell the ABA theropy which is more of a child abusive. and also most of the charity they get is for research on autism. not to help but to find away to spot if a kid will be born autistic so they can abort it. I could keep going on why they are garbage but litarraly all you need to know is they are PETA of autism. they btw also made an add with PETA saying autism was caused by milk
yes but can’t remembers names. but just keep away from autism speaks. they are the absolute worst. they made this really creepy add some years ago, autism speaks is behind so much fear of autism
yeah. imagine you just been told your kid has autism. and you see sh*t like this. no wonder so many people think its a big problem. and people refuse vaccine because of fear of autism. this makes it look like a horror movie
I know I am going to repeat this again but this is one of my pet peeves. When someone conflates autism with political statuses, like say stupid stuff like “If you’re autistic then you’re most likely to be a feminist” which is complete nonsense!! I’m neither anti-feminist nor feminist so I don’t get what’s that got to do with political statuses just because I happen to be provoked very easily.
I struggle with stimming a lot, such as tapping my fingers/feet, rocking back and forth, inability to make eye contact, misunderstanding certain contexts, and/or playing with my hands.
that’s part compliment part dismissive