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16 Apr 2021, 12:22 am

CW: Video title is deliberately provocative but he's actually talking about the idea that women experience autism differently from men and how that's bogus and rooted in misogyny.


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16 Apr 2021, 1:55 am

To watch the video, I will need to find some headphones but - I know IRL both 100% cis-women with "masculine" (blunt) ASD and 100% cis-men with "feminine" (masked) ASD. There is a correlation but it's not hardwired.
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16 Apr 2021, 2:04 am

magz wrote:
To watch the video, I will need to find some headphones but - I know IRL both 100% cis-women with "masculine" (blunt) ASD and 100% cis-men with "feminine" (masked) ASD. There is a correlation but it's not hardwired.
Cultural influence is entirely possible.


Yeah, I masked heavily while in school. It might be a matter of the boundaries we become aware of vs. the ones we don't.


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16 Apr 2021, 2:32 am

The guy is rambling and never explicitly states his point. He assumes that the number of autistic people in the world has not increased over time. I have no idea why he thinks gendered expectations facilitate identifying autistic children.

He's mixing up being "born" a girl with being "assigned" girl (two totally different concepts of girlhood), so I don't know what what his actual point is.

Come to think of it, i don't know what the female autism thing is supposed to be about either: is it that autistic females supposedly differ from autistic males because they are female or because they are socialized a certain way?