http://aspiesocial.ning.com/forum/topic/show?id=1893897%3ATopic%3A3321
I have long argued in many forums (WrongPlanet, AspergersCircle, aspergeradults, and my own blogs) that women are harder to diagnose because of the way that the female brain is predisposed, and thus also wired, towards empathy. Empathy is -as I called it- the herding instinct that enables us humans, and females in particular to be more receptive to others needs (need to please), to be more co-operative (need to belong), to be better in communication (need to team-work), and more.
Empathy is also present in the Autistic female, even though it is 'masked' behind the, so called by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, "extreme male brain." It just cases Autism to manifest differently in females than it does in males. Becaus eof this small but EXTREMELLY essential difference, girls, women, females in general are much harder to diagnose with autism hence the 1 to 4 statistics of female and male diagnosed.
In many cases, autistic women have been even thougfht as 'extreme neurotypicals' because they manifested in 'extreme' the need to please. Scientists again, mistook this 'extreme' and assumed it was an extreme form of female neurotypicality, while it is a form of female autism. I call it in my own research on females and autism: the Extreme Mom Costume. As females are, again according to my own research, the chameleons of the autistic spectrum.
We dress the part. While growing up, we observe other females around us and slowly form a 'cortume,' a persona we will eventually wear to try and fit in the society. The empathic tendency to connect with others (herding instinct) of the female brain and to form alliances, is also present in the female autistic, but as the female autistic brain lacks the 'clues' and misses the 'cues' of how to do that, it uses logic and intelligence to create a persona based on what other females do, and how they manage to fit in social groups and society at large.
Female autistics thus, are not the empathic female (neurotypical), they PLAY the empathic female, they play the perfect mom and wife (the extreme neurotypical), they play the masculine female (the macho girl, the lesbian), they play the role that they have taylor-cut and sawn-together according to their needs, and according to the social group they have grown up in, and now live in, so that they can fulfill their empathic female brain need and belong.
Today, my words have been justified. An article and an ABC documentary, shows exactly what I have been talking about.
I have long argued in many forums (WrongPlanet, AspergersCircle, aspergeradults, and my own blogs) that women are harder to diagnose because of the way that the female brain is predisposed, and thus also wired, towards empathy. Empathy is -as I called it- the herding instinct that enables us humans, and females in particular to be more receptive to others needs (need to please), to be more co-operative (need to belong), to be better in communication (need to team-work), and more.
Empathy is also present in the Autistic female, even though it is 'masked' behind the, so called by Dr. Simon Baron-Cohen, "extreme male brain." It just cases Autism to manifest differently in females than it does in males. Becaus eof this small but EXTREMELLY essential difference, girls, women, females in general are much harder to diagnose with autism hence the 1 to 4 statistics of female and male diagnosed.
In many cases, autistic women have been even thougfht as 'extreme neurotypicals' because they manifested in 'extreme' the need to please. Scientists again, mistook this 'extreme' and assumed it was an extreme form of female neurotypicality, while it is a form of female autism. I call it in my own research on females and autism: the Extreme Mom Costume. As females are, again according to my own research, the chameleons of the autistic spectrum.
We dress the part. While growing up, we observe other females around us and slowly form a 'cortume,' a persona we will eventually wear to try and fit in the society. The empathic tendency to connect with others (herding instinct) of the female brain and to form alliances, is also present in the female autistic, but as the female autistic brain lacks the 'clues' and misses the 'cues' of how to do that, it uses logic and intelligence to create a persona based on what other females do, and how they manage to fit in social groups and society at large.
Female autistics thus, are not the empathic female (neurotypical), they PLAY the empathic female, they play the perfect mom and wife (the extreme neurotypical), they play the masculine female (the macho girl, the lesbian), they play the role that they have taylor-cut and sawn-together according to their needs, and according to the social group they have grown up in, and now live in, so that they can fulfill their empathic female brain need and belong.
Today, my words have been justified. An article and an ABC documentary, shows exactly what I have been talking about.