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List of good resources on women and girls with asperger's syndrome.
Updated on 2009-12-02
Created on 2009-08-31
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Cat in a Dog's World: Denigrating Self-Diagnosed People Means Denigrating All of Us
Interesting article and discussion around formal diagnosis vs self-diagnosis for adults on the autistic spectrum.
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Why Girls with Asperger's Might Not Be Diagnosed | Newsweek Health | Newsweek.com
Some stuff on girls and women with Aspergers, and theory of mind. Some icky stuff I don't agree with about girls wanting to be like "real girls" and being therapized into it- but some interesting stuff too.
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When social settings change, this can spell disaster. "As you move from high school to college, or from one group of friends to another, you have a whole new set of rules to learn," said one Aspie woman who asked not to be named. "Not only do you lose your own identity, but if you end up surrounded by the wrong people—mimicking their behavior without understanding the motivations behind it can lead to big trouble."
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Autism Asperger (ASD) Dyslexia Training UK - Hendrickx Associates
Training and relationship counselling for folk with Aspergers.
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Anger Management Sheet for Aspergers
Anger management sheet by Tony Attwood. Points to some common problems of anger management with Aspergers.
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Asperger Syndrome and Girls
Specifically about girls: for parents.
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Aspie girls typically use their average to above-average intelligence to hide their social difficulties.
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Some social scientists believe that girls are better at developing such ways of camouflaging their disorder because they are socialized to be passive.
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An Aspie in the City | Psychology Today
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Kiriana's never taken an art class, though her drawings are sophisticated and beautiful. Her spatial orientation problems don't extend to her ability to imagine objects and render them on the page. "To me, art is a part of science, of observation—it's finding the details that define an object."
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That kind of thinking has helped her become an ace science student, a precise artist, a forceful writer—all in spite of, or maybe because of, her Asperger's traits. The paradoxes of her personality—those exceptional bursts of creativity and disability, a desire for closeness that competes with her contented solitude—will keep generating tough puzzles for Kiriana to work on, even if the actual solutions are more elusive.
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An Aspie in the City | Psychology Today
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Kiriana's similar strategy amounts to remembering and rehearsing scripts. When she walks into a clothing shop, for example, she pulls up a mental dialogue box: "No thanks, I'm just looking," is what one should say if a saleswoman offers help. But as Attwood points out, such playacting is not intuitive, and is therefore exhausting.
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"All my obsessions related to something profoundly catastrophic," she says. "I have a really hard time feeling emotionally aroused. Brutal, violent, scary things were interesting to me because that was the best way to feel something."
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Autism and Girls, Women, Females in General - aspieSocial
Interesting piece with a couple of highlighted passages I haven't seen anywhere else.
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In many cases, autistic women have been even thougfht as 'extreme neurotypicals' because they manifested in 'extreme' the need to please.
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As females are, again according to my own research, the chameleons of the autistic spectrum.
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An Aspie in the City | Psychology Today
Fantastic story of successful adult woman with Aspergers. Lots to relate to. Have highlighted passages in all 3 pages.
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And during their teenage years, they are at an increased risk for awkward sexual situations and even date rape because of their inability to interpret social cues and their tendency to take statements literally.
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Since teachers are unlikely to flag kids who excel in written work no matter how quiet they are, many girls with AS are overlooked for special education, says Michael John Carley, director of GRASP, a supportive network for people with AS.
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Asperger Womens Association
Holding page for this association - links to MySpace, Facebook and Twitter pages.
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The Aspie Life: Adults/Women With Asperger's - The Good and Bad
Blog posting with some good stuff on being a woman with Asperger's Syndrome.
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while I can disconnect emotions at weird times, usually my emotions are on overdrive. I've always felt too much. I love deeply and hard. I long for connection. I feel failure deeply and keenly. This makes it particularly hard, as my disabilities often cause problems with this. Often times, I find myself obsessing over something, and compulsively talking. I know that it's causing issues, but I feel compelled to do it. I'm not even sure why. As it's said in the article -"There are so many situations where I'm talking to somebody and I can tell they've lost interest," she says. "A lot of times I'm not sure what I did."
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I, too, have always "consistently had at least one close confidante" - although often this became way too intense. The problem with "one close confidante" - is that when that person fails you, gets sick of you, or hurts you, you have no one else. As a kid, this happened to me more than once with my "best friend" at the time. Humans are humans, and they make mistakes, have bad judgement, and simply just do stuff to hurt other humans. It's just in our nature.
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