Hello,
I wanted to share this list I learnt about by scrolling Reddit.
The author of this list, Samantha Craft, from The Art of Autism website, has created a list of features Autistic women may feel identified with.
It seems Samantha has shared this list for other Asperger women to see if they relate to these traits and comment about the features they may have in common.
There are a total of around 8-10 sections focusing on different areas of life, like personality, inner world, socialization, sensitivity, executive disfunction…
I will share my thoughts in the comment section to keep the original post ‘neutral’ enough.
Have a good day.
EDIT2: i will change the original title in the blog post from “Females with Autism” to “Autism in Women”.
It’s just so often used by incels that it now reads to me as clinical or dehumanizing/objectifying. I’m not a woman though so please don’t take my view as any type of authority. Don’t feel bad.
Hello, I apologize for not realizing about the problems around the use of the term ‘female’, thanks for explaining.
Yesterday, I just learnt about Feminine autism after a neuropsychologist mentioned it to me. He said ‘feminine’, because of the gender-cultured reasons contributing to underdiagnosis in women and LGBTIQ individuals too.
That’s the reason I am doing my best to understand by reading in communities as r/AutismInWomen, and noticing the need for safe spaces due to issues with the male autistic community.
Still, I just would like to note that some individuals new to minority-based communities may be new to the language on itself and have this double struggle with social interactions leading to “double exclusion” in certain situations, e.g. in the LGBTIQ+ community.
I promise my intentions are not bad, but I can struggle for hours to communicate a simple idea effectively and still do an epic fail. Sorry.
Again, honestly, please don’t apologise. It was very clear there were no ill intended undertones in your use of the word in the post and I shouldn’t have been so flippant, especially with no context, in my initial comment. You did nothing wrong. Please don’t let this interaction in any way make you less likely to contribute in the future.
Language is a tricky, flexible thing, and everyone is going to have their own slightly different view of the meanings and subtext of words and phrases.
Female can of course be an acceptable term. It’s my own baggage of being so online that made it become a personal flag where I automatically question author intent.