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I’m a cis male, but my autistic traits correlate with those of cis female individuals.
The study of autism is plagued with sexism, even to this day. There is definitely more awareness of the problem nowadays, but the prevalent view of how autism presents in people is largely based on antiquated stereotypes. If you are white, male, and you annoy your parents, you are more likely to get diagnosed by the professionals, than if you are not white, not male, and manage to mask your autism.
(A quick note on my terminological choices. I have no idea how being trans or nonbinary may affect autistic presentation. I don’t mean to exclude, but I also don’t want to speak about things that I’m not familiar with. I’m sorry about this.)
I believe now that my own deceased mother was autistic too, but went undiagnosed because of this sexism. She was bipolar, and alcoholic. These are often the conditions that women who are not diagnosed experience. She was treated for both conditions, but no treatment took. These treatments did not take, because they were dealing with the symptoms of autism, without dealing with the autism itself.
Early on in my research about autism, I came upon this site:
I’ve taken many of the self-assessment tests there, and I always end up neurotypical or borderline autistic. The DSM-5 is not helpful either. Actually, I think it is a step back from the online self-assessment tests. No psychiatrist of mine has ever suggested autism as an explanation for my mental troubles. I’ll remind you that I’m self-diagnosed.
Fediverse user @ImmedicableME recently posted a link to this page:
It is not the first time I find that the female presentation of autism is more reflective of how I present, too. In the book Unmasking Autism by Devon Price, the author talks of a period of time during which doctors talked about male and female autism. When I was reading this book, I could easily see my traits listed among those that doctors assigned to females.
In fiction, too, I find myself closer to the female autistic characters than the male ones. I am nothing like Rain Man, or Sheldon Cooper. I’m not rude, nor do I have an obsession with trains. The character I compare myself readily to is Quinni from Heartbreak High, an autistic girl.
For the record, I do not think that it is scientifically valid, or useful to talk about “male” and “female” autism anymore. I do not have a problem with the page I linked to above, which gives a list of traits generally linked with being female. It is important to raise the awareness that autism in females may present differently than the stereotypes.
However, once the awareness has been raised, it is better to drop the labels male and female. I am a cis male who presents mostly like a female. I think, just like my mother was undiagnosed because she did not present the male stereotype, so am I have been undiagnosed by the professionals because I do not present as the male stereotype either. Still, again, once I’ve given this explanation, I no longer want to use the binary to explain autism.
Now, I don’t have a great explanation for why I present the way I do. I suspect the pressure of living with a narcissistic father are partially to blame. I sometimes say that I don’t experience meltdowns, but this is not correct. I do experience them, but very rarely. My father, however, is an expert at triggering meltdowns in me. He knows exactly what buttons to push. Therefore, to avoid presenting too big an opportunity to him to press my buttons, I’ve learned to camouflage my autism.
My mother’s and my case are direct examples of how sexism hinders our access to medical care. We’ve both been bitten in the ass because of our manifestation of symptoms did not conform to the stereotype.
@yourautisticlife@actuallyautistic Perhaps it’s not really traits found in female autism and simply lesser-recognized traits or traits more often seen in autistic people who are able to mask or in those with a certain type of social/emotional intelligence.
I’m not familiar with research addressing why these are ascribed to females, but it seems that traits attributed to sex (and to some extent gender, since some of this could be due to sex-based socialization) are becoming irrelevant.
I've been buying these little boxes from AliExpress for years to use as firewalls and routers. My oldest one is almost 9 years old now! OpenBSD installs just fine. Just a BIOS tweak to always boot up after power is restored.
Openwrt works great for gigabit networks with simple firewall rules and no IPS. But used 10-56gbps enterprise equipment is getting pretty cheap, and more complicated firewall configurations need more powerful hardware than the typical openwrt router.
And 56gbps on a home LAN might be overkill, but that’s not important.
I’m trying to expand my Librairy access of those who offer a free Librairy card with valid ID over the internet?
I’m not interested in checking physical books out with these, vs digital and so many books aren’t available in my network.
Separate:
Also some books aren’t available to me and are generally only available at university libraries. Are there any that offer a membership over the internet for digital?
Flew from Teterboro, NJ, to Brownsville, Texas, on
3-15, arriving at 00:37:20 UTC.
This is after the Starship launch. Musk was not in person for the launch.
Americans often don't remember what happened between January 2017 and January 2021 and generally don't know what Trump has planned for them in January 2025. Editors find these stories boring but citizens need to know.
@timothydsnyder Regarding what Trump and anti-democratic authoritarians plan for 2025, your "Strongman Fantasy" article https://snyder.substack.com/p/the-strongman-fantasy should be widely read as a guide. It shows so clearly what happens historically when voters fall for the false promise of easy solutions. The world could lose the U.S. as a bulwark of democracy. Living in Japan as I do would be just a temporary respite, as paid shills for enemies of the Western-Japan alliance are increasingly propagandizing the public in Japanese through video and other channels seeping into real life. I can detail what they are saying if requested. Keep up the good fight for everyone's freedom!
🔸 config.conf is the neofetch config file I use (only the first block of code is relevant)
I had to use a custom "OS" line in the config files because it would display debian instead of antiX, so if you use the file put back the default line :
[...]OS" distro
instead of :
[...]OS" "antiX 23 Arditi del Popolo"
🔸 config.conf.alts was my work-in-progress config file when I was obsessively trying different variations on the same look to find just the right one, if you run it they will display the variations one after the other (might take a while 😅 )
🔸 .bashrc for the alias to make neofetch use a custom distro logo Basically just add :
alias neofetch='neofetch --ascii ~/path-to-custom-ascii-logo.txt
at the end of the .bashrc
(Yes I also added a line to autolaunch neofetch each time I open a terminal 😁 )
@nachtbibliothekar
Die Seite hatte ich nur ganz kurz überflogen. Aber ja, stimmt, da sind SPler nicht angesprochen. Na ja, es hindert uns keiner dran, uns "mit dranzuhängen", oder? Unabhängig sind wir schließlich erst recht.😁 @fiee@Nike_Leonhard@buechermachen
A remarkable astrolabe from Al-Andalus, hitherto unknown and unpublished, is preserved in the Fondazione Museo Miniscalchi-Erizzo in Verona. It is datable to the eleventh century and features added Hebrew and Latin inscriptions.