Female Aspie traits

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Alot of it sounds like me, too. Not all of it but alot. I don't have any officixal dx. I'm going to ask my psychologist about irt this week. My bf and a few other people who've met me are certain I have this.

Alot of it sounds like me, too. Not all of it but alot. I don't have any officixal dx. I'm going to ask my psychologist about irt this week. My bf and a few other people who've met me are certain I have this.

An interesting attempt to try and document the differing paths of expression.

I know quite a number of aspie females in both personal and a professional role and I can certainly see where some of them fit those features quite well. Others are not as easy to pin point they have very strong conformity to the list of prequisites in one aspect and very little or are masking them very well in other area's.

Either way I think I will "aquire" this table and show it to some aspie females to see what their reaction will be. I suspect as well this is very much an "americainsed" version and so maybe it will differ slightly depending on the social standing and expectations of women in a given culture or society?

Laz - do you mind me asking the nature of your profession? I'm not asking you to tell me your exact job necessarily but just the field maybe. I'm curious where there's such a high concentration of female Aspies.

I am what we call in the UK one of these. But technically the job I do is not actually a nursing role as such it just makes use of my profession+asperger diagnosis

Ah really interesting! I actually applied for a few jobs that sound similar (as aides to kids with autism) but I wasn't selected unfortunately! I would love to work with kids with autism. NT kids are lovable of course but I don't relate to them at all because I never was one. I relate to the kids too shy and too busy observing to talk or participate in social stuff. Even NT two-year-olds have small talk down to a science and I just don't think I'll ever understand the appeal of small talk.

My career began working as a volunteer on a playscheme for children with learning disabilities. It was divided into two sites. One for the profoundly disabled with complex needs and mutli-sensory deficits. The other for emotional/behavioural who were quite able and active.

I spent a lot of time working with a young girl who was blind, deaf and severly disabled by cerebral pallsy. 90% of the workers at the scheme including the paid staff found her difficult to work with because she would cry all the time. I ended up making her laugh by figuring out that she could "sense" vibration and so would entertain her all day playing drums and other vibrating instruments very near to her body so she could feel the vibration. I actually made her laugh. And thus began my adventures in learning disability as I figured it would be cooler to do that then get a degree in psychology and patronise everyone with arm-chair psycho-analysis BS

There also happened to be two children with aspergers there who I got on with very well. It was like interacting with myself as a child all over again. Very fascinating and an intruiging learning experiance in self realisation of how aspergers comes across from the "outside" to others

I'm a man, and I can relate to the vast majority of what's on the chart - or at least I could have done when my ASD was more pronounced.

An additional point I could make is that I feel a bit more masculine now that my ASD has improved. I wonder why Aspies are more androgynous than the general population. Is it simply because we're less influenced by cultural norms, or something more inexplicably complex than that (like the tendency for Aspies to look younger than they are)?