[25+ Age] L & D Forums for High-Functioning Adult AS?

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Last edited by Zane on 30 Dec 2008, 7:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

Iraq, at least during Saddam's reign, was fairly secular, and many women were college educated if I am not mistaken. I think you're thinking of Saudi Arabia.

I really don't know if you're referring to oligarchy (rule by the few—usually some merchant or business class) or matriarchy (rule by the mother of the household). Anyway most of the Scandinavian countries are social democracies with democratic elections and representative legislatures.

Splitting the world into stereotyped dichotomies is not logical. Men may tend to be more competitive and women more cooperative, but you will find plenty of exceptions, and most people have a bit of both, depending on the situation. For example, most men will certainly be quite caring towards their girlfriend/fiancée/wife and children even if competitive during a sporting event or work. Likewise, some women can be fiercely competitive (Hillary Rodham Clinton exhibits this trait to a considerable degree).

Moreover, I don't know what you mean by "becom[ing] more intelligent." Intelligence is the raw capacity to learn and adapt to one's environment, and psychological studies have shown IQ is relatively fixed throughout life (if anything, with some mental deterioration into older age). Certainly, though, one can become better educated or more knowledgeable.

For men in Western countries, self-reliance and independence are much more gender normative. You may meet with competition when your self-determined agenda is in conflict with another's, but you will not face the same level of social pressure to conform that women do. Also, it seems women may tend to be innately more sensitive to social condonement and condemnation; that is, they tend to be more sensitive about what people think of them and maintaining relationships (again, there are many exceptions). As a male and an individual with Asperger's syndrome, you simply will not feel these pressures the way they do.

That is not to say it is impossible for women, but biological and sociological pressures tend to reinforce certain attitudes and behaviors for different genders/sexes, races, physical appearance, etc. Going against the grain is never as easy (but obviously more rewarding).

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Last edited by Zane on 30 Dec 2008, 7:20 pm, edited 1 time in total.

*sigh* I am sick of grouping the whole Middle East as one place, it is a big place....you know?

What you are saying is not correct at all where I live, most girls hold high degrees here. Even my mother is math teacher with a high math degree and so my sister in journalism.


Believe or not, even the daughters of Hezbollah are very highly educated (university and above).


Lebanon is #23 in "Girls to boys ratio, secondary level enrollment (most recent) by country " , the ratio is almost 1:1

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/edu_g ... -enrolment

http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/edu_e ... s-tertiary


No, it's not Afghanistan here ,nor KSA.

What is it that you're trying to say?

^^ proving him that where I live , women don't need a chance in hell of getting a degree from their home towns, it's something very common among them.

Maybe it's a language problem but most of the time you don't make any sense but I'm trying to understand what you're trying to say.

^I think he's saying that women have the same rights as men do for equal opportunities and education from where he lives.

In other words, his country is more liberal than say...Saudi Arabia or middle eastern countries we typically see in the media that're opposed to women's rights such as education and job opportunities.

the only reason I wouldn't live in some/most places in the Middle East is that I have a hard enough time following my own cultural norms. Lebanon/Israel are probably quite different than Bahrain/Qatar which is even more different than Afghanistan/Iraq which is even more different that Saudi Arabia or Iran.

Actually, given the AS, I often do not realize someone is not comprehending what I say very well. Many people are not willing to just say so or ask questions without fear of embarrassment. That said, part of intelligence, is adapting one's message to the audience.

In my opinion, if anyone wants to try to participate in a more intellectual discussion, why not let them? If they're having trouble keeping up, they may duck out or just read. How else is anyone going to learn? How do people learn how to swim? By watching others swim and then getting in the water and trying it for themselves.

Grouping the entire Middle East is pretty closed minded....but never the less some countries like Iraq are good examples of that but thats not the entire world. I never got why they gave there woman so little rights locked them up inside and had the men do all the work....

In fact, you are the first member who ever told me such remark.

I understand him with the utmost clarity. Just try reading over it again.

????sweetheart????? who are you, clark gable. take your condescending chauvenism and stuff it, pal.

your experience of people respecting you and looking up to for being intelligent would be dramatically different if you were intelligent and female.

why must you personally insult when you disagree?