first I figured I'm trans but couldn't transition, then a few years later, I figure I'm in the autistic spectrum. No official diagnosis but acknowledged by my doctor and psychologist, who both informed me of the very high rate of ASD in the trans community and vice versa, then I study autism and I clearly am and now understand how my brain works and in what ways my thinking and actions are different, would it be only of the very crucial eye contact, very crucial for a social being like a modern human, and that I cannot perform in the right way...
and when understanding autism, the link with transsexualism is obvious (to me anyways) as ASD people do not relate to the human models, do not perform imitation like neurotypical do, and they lack a motivation to be something like the neurotypicals do.
people in the spectrum while being very different from one another to the point that they often can't be together, can't tolerate one another, often have some traits in common, lack of motivation, goals, incapacity of relating to a given model, the rational takes all the place in an ASD brain, and rational is not the most evident trait of neurotypicals, more emotions and (often false) representation. There is no representation in an ASD brain, everything is rational. So if you say to a neurotypical: Look, you could be a fireman, the kid says Yes!!! and sees himself in a ladder with a hose. You say that to a kid on ASD, and he/she will see not the end result but all the path to get there and the difficulties and dangers of being a fireman, living with the colleagues, all, everything will go in the rational machine.
an ASD brain is the center of the world, everything goes through the rational of that brain, as opposed to automatic settings in neurotypicals whereas there is no thinking to be done, I'm a man, I'm a woman, no rational in that, and for an ASD brain, there is no preset.
as for math, some ASD are geniuses in math, others mainly see no purpose in algebra, it's all too theoretical for such a practical brain and it leads to absurd answers invalidating the process to get to these answers who needs a+b = c
2 , I mean what does that do? Nothing concrete so this is no use
Quote from: alienbodybuilder on March 09, 2016, 03:22:17 AM
Do you also feel that you may have been wrongly diagnosed with aspergers due to your gender dysphoria?
I don't think one can be wrongly diagnosed with ASD, Aspergers, it's a long process to get there with specialized people, and one accumulates different autistic traits until it reaches the diagnostic, and if not, well the autistic traits are there still, just not strong enough, or not enough of them to qualify for a diagnosis.
it's quite obvious for me that there is much, much more than 1 or 2% of the population who is ASD, probably like 10-15% who could get a diagnosis and another 15% who have some autistic traits. Science considered autism as a childhood psychological condition until not long ago.
there are many conditions said to be touching more men than women and most of the time these figures are plainly wrong and were established by male chauvinist professionals who see what they want to see, so for them these traits, like having no goal, no motivation for example, is just a normal set of mind for a woman. Same goes for cluster headaches a very hurtful condition (that I have) where male chauvinist professionals didn't give the same importance to the pleas for help and the demonstration of the pain from women than from men, giving more credibility to the men's explanation of the pain, whereas a woman always complain about pain anyways type thing, you know. I don't think ASD affects men more than woman.
