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Any GC feminists with autism?

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GCandautistic · 29/05/2021 17:21

Hi all. NC for this. I am currently awaiting diagnosis for autism. I’m in my late 30s so it is a later life diagnosis. I am strongly gender critical but cannot be open about this at work. I am pretty high functioning in my career. I struggle a bit socially but not too badly.

One of the things I struggle with is how anyone can take gender ideology seriously. And also how someone can just not care. It’s just so blatantly a load of rubbish. Because this realisation about my autism is quite a recent one, I wonder whether being autistic has anything to do with my way of thinking. Obviously the majority of GC feminists will be NT but it would be interesting to hear from anyone who thinks their autism influences how they approach this issue.

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PurgatoryOfPotholes · 29/05/2021 17:35
GCandautistic · 29/05/2021 17:34

Thanks all of you! Yes, I am also very fact-based in my thinking and I love logic. Things need to make sense in my head which is why I find it so hard to get my head around all the cis/assigned at birth stuff.

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Clarice99 · 29/05/2021 17:31

Yes, I have a diagnosis of autism and I am GC.

I believe gender is just made up of facets of ones personality. Sex is biological. To me, it's either male or female. No in-between.

Black or white. No shades of grey, except for grey clothing as my skin tone does not suit black or white Grin

I believe my black and white thinking is definitely autism related. But the sex issue, that's based on science. My thought processes are so rigid, I don't think I will ever believe anything other than science based facts.

cariadlet · 29/05/2021 17:29

I'm autistic and GC. My autism might be a factor. I'm very logical and don't like woolly thinking - one of the reasons I'm pro-science and an atheist. But then many skeptics are NT so it's hard to know how much my autism influences my mind set.

FrankensteinIsTheMonster · 29/05/2021 17:27

Hiya.

For me it means constant cognitive effort and discomfort when required to speak counterfactually as part of someone else's GD treatment. I'm willing to accept that effort and discomfort that for the sake of someone for whom transition is a necessary intervention for a serious problem. Not so happy about being required to do so all the time for no perceptible benefit.

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