#aspie women

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[bodymodificationnation]

Good VS Bad Autism Tattoos

Many people in the autistic community view the puzzle piece as a hate symbol because it implies we're not whole people. We're missing pieces and we're problems that need to be solved. Which is why a lot of us gravitate towards the infinity sign instead! It comes in both rainbow (for neurodiversity) and gold! As the chemical symbol for gold is Au.

[bifflesnitch]

And here I was worrying it was all in my head and I was just lazy.

[elfwink]

Whether or not you disclose your autism diagnosis is a tricky subject! In this video, I talk about my thoughts and experiences on the matter.

If you’re ever unsure or uncomfortable about this sort of thing, I want you to know that you’re not alone! Many people out there worry about this. I hope that by sharing this content, that you feel a little less alone.

[radio-charlie]

Stupid likely asset fluffing twitter boner of less stupid confirmed asset

[kuruk]

someone tagging that aspie gf thing as aphobia is so crazy to me you think treating autistic women like stupid innocent rapeable adult children is aphobic?

[allisticntprivilege]

I saw you reblogging a post about NT experts on mental states&illnesses and I wondered: What do you think about Simon Baron-Cohen and his works&ideas he postulates? (I myself don't like him but that's just me and that would extend the limits of this ask box...)

He has moved from Direct Pathologizing (extreme male brain, theory of mind -- which is still his most cited work, describing autistic transmasculinity & autistic women not being straight as testosterone related disorders) to aspie elitism masquerading as neurodiversity (but still some theory of mind shit) but, like, that’s still bad. Aspie supremacy can kill.

And, like, there’s his idea of what post-diagnostic support means: https://wchh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/psb.1816 and the categorization of AAC as only showing preliminary evidence of benefit https://www.thelancet.com/article/S1474-4422(20)30034-X/abstract (Hint: no, if you consider the AAC fields own literature it gets the same Evidence-Based label, and if you don’t consider the field’s own literature then that rule should be applied to all the other folks studying their own so-called supports.)

He is, at this point, supervising work where a careful reader trying to pull useful bits out will absolutely find those useful buts. However, never trust his framing of anything. The framing still tends to be very Typical Autism Essay.

[confield]

I think autistic women should organize or some shit and kill every 4chan type guy who makes those aspie gf memes. Just kill em all

[theaspieworld]

Welcome back to The Aspie World! I'm Dan, and I have autism, ADHD, OCD, and dyslexia, so you're in safe hands here. Today, we're diving into a topic that's both important and frustrating: why autism in girls is often missed during the diagnostic process. If you're an autistic girl or know someone who is, this post is for you. Let's get started! 1. Lack of Training Among Healthcare Professionals One of the main reasons autism in girls is often missed is that many healthcare professionals aren't trained to recognize it. Historically, most of the research and diagnostic criteria were based on observations of boys. Pioneers like Hans Asperger and Leo Kanner primarily focused on males, leading to a skewed understanding of autism. This gender bias has persisted, causing many professionals to overlook or misinterpret signs of autism in girls. Organizations like the National Autistic Society and Autism Society of America are working to change this, but there's still a long way to go. Girls often don't fit the classic "male" profile of autism, leading to underdiagnosis and misdiagnosis. 2. Misdiagnosis with Bipolar Disorder Another common issue is the misdiagnosis of autism as bipolar disorder. It's shocking how often this happens. Many girls diagnosed with bipolar disorder actually have autism, but the overlap in symptoms leads to confusion. Autism and bipolar disorder are distinct conditions, with autism being a neurological condition and bipolar disorder a mental health condition. Misdiagnosing autism as bipolar disorder can lead to ineffective treatment, as the approaches for managing these conditions are different. 3. Misdiagnosis with ADHD Similarly, autism in girls is often misdiagnosed as ADHD. While autism and ADHD share some overlapping symptoms, they are not the same. ADHD is a common co-occurring condition with autism, but many professionals stop at the ADHD diagnosis without considering autism. This is particularly frustrating because proper support and interventions for autism can make a significant difference in a girl's life. 4. Masking Masking, or camouflaging, is when an individual with autism adopts coping mechanisms to blend in with neurotypical people. This is particularly common in girls, who are often socialized to conform more than boys. Girls might mimic social behaviors, suppress their stimming, or hide their true feelings to avoid standing out. While masking can help them navigate social situations, it makes it harder for professionals to recognize their autism. Assessors need to be trained to look beyond surface behaviors and understand the underlying struggles. 5. Dismissal of Major Issues Society often dismisses the struggles of girls and women, attributing their challenges to personality or social factors rather than considering neurological differences. This dismissal extends to the medical field, where girls' issues are often overlooked or minimized. This societal bias prevents many girls from receiving the referrals and support they need. Autism is still seen as a predominantly male condition, which leads to a lack of appropriate diagnostic attention for girls. We need to advocate for better training, awareness, and support to ensure girls receive accurate diagnoses and the help they deserve. Conclusion These five reasons—lack of training, misdiagnosis with bipolar disorder and ADHD, masking, and societal dismissal—highlight why autism in girls is often missed. We must raise awareness and push for change to ensure that girls on the spectrum receive the recognition and support they need. If you found this post helpful, please share it to help increase awareness. Your comments are always welcome, and I read and respond to every single one. Let's continue to advocate for equality and better understanding for everyone on the spectrum. Thank you for reading, and I'll see you in the next post! Peace. Video : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDZahw66nfo&t=89s Hashtags : autism in girls,autism,girls

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Explaining my banner

[Image ID: White text in a Galaxy background reads If you: Derail my posts; are an “aspie”; run a sh/ed blog; are under 16; are a TERF; think cripplepunk is for mental disabilities; think that autism isn’t a disability; are pro-transabled, trace, transage, etc; are pro-map or pro-zoo; are a transmed; want to completely demedicalize autism, I will probably block or mock you. End ID]

General

This isn’t a DNI. I don’t think that DNIs actually work, and I don’t really care about DNIs if the other person is directly spouting bigoted crap (otherwise I’ll respect them).

On that note, anyone can interact with my stuff. This is just a warning about what will happen if you do.

I reserve the right to be a dick, asshole, and/or rude to anybody who falls under those categories (except for under 16). If you’re a bigot I’m gonna treat you like one.

Specific meanings

If you don’t know what I mean by one of the items on this list, look here. They will be listed in order.

Derail my posts: basically, if you try to make my post into something that it’s not, I will not be polite about it. Example here.

Are an “aspie”: this refers to people who reference themselves as being an “aspie” or as having Aspergers syndrome. Learn why this is bad here. As a moderate-high support needs autist descended from Holocaust and Inquisition survivors, this is triggering and I will probably block you for my mental peace.

Run an sh/ed blog: (tw) this refers to blogs that are about self harm and/or eating disorders. These are incredibly harmful to everyone involved. I will block you.

Are under 16: I am 20 years old. I do not feel comfortable interacting with young teens, especially since I post a lot of sexual references, and cursing. I will not mock anyone for their age; this falls under the “block” category.

Are a TERF: this stands for Trans Exclusive Radical Feminist. Basically, this is about anybody who is transphobic in the name of protecting women’s rights. Honestly this applies to any transphobe. I WILL mock you into oblivion.

Think cripple punk is for mental disabilities: cripplepunk (aka cpunk) is a movement specifically for physically disabled people. It is not about people who are mentally disabled only, without physical disabilities. Cripples deserve our own communities. Read more here.

Think that autism isn’t a disability: autism is inherently disabling, going by the criteria of autism and the definition disability. To say otherwise is both misinformation and a denial of the lives experiences of higher support needs autistic people. Read more here.

Are pro-transabled, trace, transage, etc: these people appropriate the perfectly valid idea of being transgender, thinking that you can identify with a different race or ethnicity than you are (aka trace or transrace) a different age than you are (transage) a disability that you don’t have (transabled), or others. I will mock you relentlessly.

Are pro-map or pro-zoo: MAP stands for minor-attracted person, aka a pedophile. Zoo is short for zoophile, which is a person attracted to animals. These people are their supporter are absolutely disgusting.

Are a transmed: a transmed, or transmedicalist, believe at the very least that you need gender dysphoria to be transgender. Some are more extreme, believing that you need to meet the clinical criteria for gender dysphoria or that you need to medically transition in order to be trans. This does not refer to trans people who simply want to medically transition.

Want to completely demedicalize autism: this is a bit complicated and I may make a post about this later. Generally though, it refers to people who view autism as not a disorder but as a purely innocuous, net neutral or positive, “just another neurotype”. They want to remove autism from the psychiatric or medical fields entirely as they believe it is not about deficits in cognitive function. This is entirely false.

Ok that’s it. If you want to learn more about the specifics you can click on the links provided or Google them.

[weepingpussywillowtree]

So in light of people FINALLY starting to fall out of love with Devon Price (I don't really keep up with Tumblr drama, but I've been seeing more critiques of his books recently), I decided to post the thing I've had in my drafts for months about my misgivings with his book "Unmasking Autism". Feel free to ignore this if you don't care, this is mostly a personal rant.

Unmasking Autism has some weird ideas in it I was wary of, though I liked most of the first third. This is the most research based, and as the citations decrease, the quality of the content does as well. Some issues:

- There's some aspie supremacy going on, as much as he'd like to insist there's not. He definitely falls into the fallacy of trying to prove that autistic people have to be "useful" somehow to have value, or trying to insist that autistic people are somehow superior. Ick. He also implies that the only reason a majority of autistic people aren't employed is because we aren't accommodated at work, which just isn't true. Accomodations are good, but some people cannot work. That is not a bad thing.

- I really did not like the policy section at the end (making dimmable lights legally mandated??? Who has the authority to dim them? We all going to have a victim contest in the grocery store?? What about visually impaired people?) There is myriad other similar silly ideas in this section.

- It also spreads some misinformation about the relationship between ADHD and autism. There's a really weird line in the book implying they are somehow related disorders and/or comprable?? And all the research I've seen suggests that while they can have overlapping symptoms and ADHD can be more frequently co-occurring in those with ASD, them being related or sister disorders is definitely NOT the case.

- the content of the book is very unfocused. A lot of it felt like a personal rant, and some chunks felt like they were part of a different book about his experience as a trans man. Other parts of the book felt like they were there exclusively to pad the page count.

- it has some weird contradictions in it. For instance, he says he wants to avoid stereotyping autistic people, but towards the end of the book goes on and on about how nerdy hobbies like DND and anime cons, etc. are perfect for autistic people to make friends at which felt very stereotypey and also ignores how nerdy spaces can be very very unwelcoming to women and POC.

- the comparison between neurotypicals being themselves and autistic people unmasking being almost the same thing left a really really bad taste in my mouth. Autistic masking is totally different from a neurotypical person not always being themselves, and though the book tangentially acknowledges that unmasking can be dangerous for masked autistics, it comes across as very judgemental towards autistic people who choose to continue to mask in their day to day lives. To Price, unmasking is a political statement or act of protest, and I find this very shortsighted. Masking is a survival technique, not a moral choice.

-finally, he almost entirely dismisses the medical model of disability. While the medical model has problems for sure, no amount of societal change would change the fact that humans are social creatures and I have social and sensory deficits that impact my ability to engage with that. Again, this smells of aspie supremacy to me, because lots of higher support need autistics would still be disabled no matter how utopic society was.

Also, this isn't a critique of his book, but he tends to be very reductive, reactive, and nasty to people in online spaces based on some tweet screenshots I've seen which I'm not a fan of at all. The book lacks nuance, focus, and sensitivity in the same way and comes across as patronizing.

[tetsunabouquet]

Autism Acceptance Month

Originally, I wanted to post nothing like I usually do with autism acceptance month but then I realized something and knew it was time for me to talk about my autism: It's that I'm part of the 'old' crowd. WIth old I mean, not my age, but the differences of the community.

It's like the 'old' crowd in the gay community who can remember a time before ANY country had legalized gay marriage, and some were resorting to things like gays marrying lesbians and being each other's beard.

It's like the 'old' crowd in the trans community, who can remember a time when bottom surgeries were still rare, more experimental then they were now and all the drama of when it 'first became a thing'.

I can remember a time before people began pointing out that autism can be very different in women and that the diagnostic system is mostly aimed at male symptoms. Before people started saying, 'Who knows, maybe autism occurs just as often as with women but they're just underdiagnosed'. Being diagnosed at the age of 5, which is 20 years ago, I grew up in a boys club. I've already mentioned in comments to mutuals, what a HELL that was once we all hit puberty (poor social skills combined with girls being at best 10% of the student body and puberty are a TERRIBLE combo. I literally had a legend created about my vagina like one of isekai hentai.) I can remember a time before the diagnostic system had scrapped subtypes. Nowadays you just have autism. Because of push-back from the Aspergers crowd who didn't wanted the 'autism' label, people still remember what Aspergers was. Other subtypes are already being forgotten.

My diagnosis was PDD-NOS, and I've actually had to sit down and explain what this meant in the autistic community because people don't know what the fuck PDD-NOS was. PDD-NOS basically was the diagnosis for people who were on the spectrum, but did not fully meet the criteria and showed a few key differences with the subtype they resembled the most. Basically, it was the misfit label within the autistic community. Which was why some people also called it Atypical Autism. As HF PDD-NOS, this meant I did not fully meet Aspergers criteria, and we HF PDD-NOS typically have problems with speech and memory that they didn't (when it comes to memory and intelligence, I'm kind of the opposite of a savant autistic). I've also seen articles and heard people say back in the day that kids with PDD NOS were more prone to daydreaming and being imaginative as Aspergers. As a tween, I liked to see us as the Luna Lovegoods opposed to the Hermione Grangers of the autistic intellectual. But PDD NOS was a subtype meant for everyone who didn't meet the criteria for the 4 more typical autism subtypes, and those with a intellectual disability outnumbered us. I actually have been rejected from a PDD NOS treatment program as a kid, solely because I didn't had an intellectual disability. When subtypes existed, I felt like I didn't even fit in with others on the spectrum, as I wasn't an Aspie or had an intellectual disability. I cheered when they were scrapped. I finally felt like I had a community. Like doctors were seeing how hurt we misfits were, and that it needed to change. I'm still happy about that, 10 years later. Then I am not even talking about how whilst there's still a stigma, it has been reduced and social media helps with people being more informed. People are stil shit, but nowadays more people know they're assholes and will get called out for being ableist. Even casually like the moms at the block crying about how it's a 'waste of such a pretty little girl (or boy)' when the child gets diagnosed with autism (people were seriously acting like I was diagnosed with leprosy when my mom informed them of my diagnosis). I am grateful for these things changing, because it used to be shitty. I am happy for all of you who get diagnosed in a better time, and Gen Alpha and all those who get to grow up living with a better diagnostic system. But I remember the old one, and all of its problems.

I remember a time before autism acceptance month became trendy every year on the internet like Pride Month and whatnot. Hereby, I am sharing a bit of what it was like in the old days. May the system continue to improve.

[elfwink]

Aspie YouTube

If you’re autistic or neurodivergent, I’d really love you to come and hang out with me on my YouTube channel. =) https://www.youtube.com/@yanaAspieVlog  YANA = You Are Not Alone. Because I don’t want any aspie or neurokin to feel like they’re alone.

[rebelqueenperu]

Mira y refexiona

No entiendo porque varias personas asocian al autismo con aletear las manos y al asperger con ponerse psicópata por cuenta propia cuando en realidad lo unico que quieren es encajar en la sociedad.

A veces pienso que en los medios no estan hechos para las afectadas por asperger y que les dijera que son autistas, solo basta con ver el corto de pixar loop y ver a Renee, quizas si una aspie girl viera eso se lastimaría diciendo que ella no es ella, ( por el hecho de no ser no verbal ), porque nadie conoce asperger, solo lo conocen por Greta Thunberg y Mary & Max ( que en ninguna escena de esa pelicula se hace mencion explicitamente que las mujeres aspie existen, cuando un hombre con asperger existe y es el protagonista, lo cual llamo representacion paupérrima a la mujer y niña aspie ).

Solo queda esperar que alguien nos comprendan, porque somos igual de raritas y socialmente torpes; ( me refiría a la comparación de autismo y asperger. )

"La locura de unos, es la realidad de otros" - Tim Burton

¿Y quién soy yo?, pues soy mitad Aspie ,o algo así, es una condición.

Esto fue escrito sin propósito de burlarse de alguna persona.

I don't understand why many people associate autism with hand flapping and asperger's with becoming a psychopath on their own when in reality all they want is to fit in with society.

Sometimes I think that the media are not made for girls affected by Asperger's and to tell them that they are autistic, it is enough to watch the short from Pixar "Loop" and see Renee, maybe if an aspie girl saw that she would be hurt by saying that she It's not her, (due to the fact that it's not non-verbal), because no one knows about Asperger, they only know it through Greta Thunberg and Mary & Max (in no scene of that movie is it explicitly mentioned that aspie women exist, when a man with asperger exists and is the protagonist, which I call a very poor representation of the aspie woman and girl).

It only remains to hope that someone understands us, because we are just as weird and socially awkward; (I was referring to the comparison of autism and asperger.)

"The madness of some is the reality of others" - Tim Burton

And who am I? Well, I'm half Aspie, or something like that, it's a condition.

This was written with no purpose of making fun of anyone.

[monky]

That “aspie gf” one was vile like you see autistic women as naive infantile sex toys die actually

[neurotypicalabusesurvivor]

Aspie surpemcy only care about high functing neurodivergents who are white male. They do not care about POC or none men neurodivergents. They have a high hatred of low functing neurodivergent.

Neurodivergents who support the medical models refuse to acknowledge disability can be a social construct. They have a high hatred for high functing neurodivergents. They think because treatment is right for them that therefore genocide is ok.

Hoteps only care about black neurotypical males. They veiw black liberation as more important then the liberation of other marglized groups.

White feminist only care about white middle class neurotypical women. They veiw gender abolishion as more important then the abolishion of all other marglized people.

Notice a pattern her how people prioritize the groups they belong to. There are many people who are fighting for civil rights should are only doing so because of who there parents are. These people are almost as hateful as cishet neurotypical males.

These people are bad because they will stand with fascist against you. They are fighting for the right to be a oppressor not for the liberation of society as the whole.