Where are all the male aspies?

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03 May 2011, 11:16 am

Last time I checked (which was quite a long time ago), Wrongplanet had roughly 50/50 male to female ratio. But autistic males outnumber autistic females more than 4 to 1. Are many male aspies not members of Wrongplanet? Or are a lot of male aspies severe?

Anyone know why this is?

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03 May 2011, 11:20 am

it could just be that females of any stripe [on the spectrum or no] are naturally more communicative than males of any stripe, and more likely to post on sites such as this one. just a thought.

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03 May 2011, 11:25 am

Per Attwood, adult diagnosis is very close to even. Diagnosis of children is 4:1, but there's evidence that this is at least to some extent caused by people just not noticing that girls are autistic at younger ages. I posted a link to an article a month or two ago that suggested that diagnosticians basically blow girls off rather than evaluate them for things like ADHD and Asperger's Syndrome.

I am not sure that women are more likely to communicate online than men, though.

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03 May 2011, 11:41 am

Could be that since our female compatriots are marginalized in the "real world" that they are forced to turn to the online universe.

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03 May 2011, 11:47 am

They could well all be living under bridges. And I mean that literally. Not trolls.

I don't really know.

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03 May 2011, 12:09 pm

I guess that the world's most active autistic forum having a relatively even gender balance might count as an empirical hint that the ratio could be wrong.

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03 May 2011, 12:23 pm

I'm here.

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03 May 2011, 12:27 pm

i'm here too, nominally male but i'm very feminine for the most part.

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03 May 2011, 1:01 pm

auntblabby wrote:

i'm here too, nominally male but i'm very feminine for the most part.

I sometimes feel feminine too. (Even though I'm a male).

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03 May 2011, 1:11 pm

Moog wrote:

They could well all be living under bridges. And I mean that literally. Not trolls.

We actually do have a lot of trolls here though. I thought that's where you were going with that. God that's a horrifying thought, they're all homeless.

As for the OP, I'll pay more attention, because I haven't noticed.

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03 May 2011, 1:16 pm

I'm here :3

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03 May 2011, 1:19 pm

Thats what women do, yak yak yak.

Did someone say troll?

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03 May 2011, 1:26 pm

Actually, I think I read once that with AS, the ratio was 70/30 to males, and not all the people here are diagnosed, and a lot of the users are parents of children diagnosed with autism anyway.

Verdandi wrote:

I am not sure that women are more likely to communicate online than men, though.

Depends where. On social networks possibly, but elsewhere there does tend to be more males. There's even a joke called "there's no girls on the Internet", but females on the Internet are generally becoming lot more common these days.

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03 May 2011, 1:30 pm

CaptainTrips222 wrote:

As for the OP, I'll pay more attention, because I haven't noticed.

Just start reading the members' profiles and you'll notice. Many don't have a particular "feminine name" nor do they have avatars that "look feminine".

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03 May 2011, 1:34 pm

Surfman wrote:

Thats what women do, yak yak yak.

Did someone say troll?

Awwww... it wouldn't be a debate without you, Surfman!

Also, I find it incredibly hard to get mad at you with that icon... horribly insensitive, obviously overbearing, gross stereotyping aside.

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03 May 2011, 1:55 pm

Surfman wrote:

Thats what women do, yak yak yak.

Did someone say troll?

This woman is an expert at doing that. :lol:

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