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08 Sep 2005, 4:56 pm

I didn't have much facial hair until age 19 or so.

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08 Sep 2005, 5:00 pm

MishLuvsHer2Boys wrote:

Even as a woman, I feel like I'm in a foreign country in a room of females. While I grew up wanting some things other females wanted like children and a family. A lot of things most females did, I didn't fully understand and when I did have friends or acquaintances, it gravitated towards males. They seemed to oddly understand me better. I grew up as a tomboy and now as a woman of almost 32, I'm still towards that leaning.

I'm not sure how it all may link into high testosterone exposure but I also ended up somehow with an abnormally high sex drive that even some male friends have commented is very very unusual for a woman and even for some guys.

That pretty much describes me!

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08 Sep 2005, 5:01 pm

MishLuvsHer2Boys wrote:

I'd have to disagree on autistics being born to older women, I know a 24 yr old women that has a 5 yr old autistic son, I was 26 when I got pregnant with my 4 1/2 yr old son with HFA. And my mother was only 25 yrs old when she had me and I have AS, so I don't think age is truly conclusive. Down Syndrome and neural tube defects increased with advanced maternal age but there is no real proof that is the same with autism. Where autism is genetic-based and likely has about 10-100 different genetic markers or so, I highly doubt mother's age would have affect on that as well as testosterone.

My mom was 26 when I was born and I was 27 when my AS son was born so unless 26 is old for having a child I too would disagree with that statement.

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08 Sep 2005, 5:11 pm

Having a child at age 26 doesn't seem late by today's standards of course, but historically I think it probably is. I wonder what the average age of first pregnancy was say two generations ago compared to today.

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08 Sep 2005, 5:18 pm

My mother was 29 or 30 when she had me and 32 when she had my NT sister.

shivanataraja wrote:

I for instance am male but have no (either male or female) gender identity, and physically if anything i probably show evidence of *lower* than average testosterone levels (less facial hair than my brother who is 7 years younger, no chest or arm hair at all, and a figure which still looks almost pre-pubescent in muscular (lack of) development (i kind of look like i went thru puberty from the neck up and from the waist down, but it didn't touch me anywhere in between))...

That is pretty much how I am.

I did not start shaving untill the age of 21 which is a bit late... LOL. I have little chest and arm hair although the arm hair is starting to grow more now but my legs are quite hairy. Im nnot very muscular which might be because I dont eat much thanks to sensory problems.

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08 Sep 2005, 5:23 pm

spacemonkey wrote:

I didn't have much facial hair until age 19 or so.

Same here.

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08 Sep 2005, 5:26 pm

spacemonkey wrote:

My grandmother was 25 having my mother and my mom was 2nd oldest in the family. So you'd likely have to look back much further than that to really substantiate a big difference.

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09 Sep 2005, 8:19 am

Yeah, I didn't start shaving until I was 22! lol

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09 Sep 2005, 12:16 pm

Another thing is people can have a male brain cognitively (i.e., autism) or a masculine (macho) personality. Autistic spectrum conditions do not seem to be correlated with highly masculine personalities in my experience. I do not have a highly masculine personality (for a young man), and this might mislead some women who see the effects of a fairly high level of testosterone in my body.

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09 Sep 2005, 12:24 pm

I started shaving at 13.

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09 Sep 2005, 12:57 pm

heh I also started shaving around 13-14

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