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4:33am May 21, 2014

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autisticcruella:

I wish people would stop saying that autistic people cannot wholly identify with gender.

I can. I am thoroughly female and have always known this. I have been made to feel inferior as a woman, I have been told I am actually sexless and thus genderless (one, one’s sex is not necessarily one’s…

Yeah, seriously.  I may be genderless, but that doesn’t mean all autistic people are.  I know plenty of autistic people who are either trans or cis and who definitely have a gender.  The idea that we don’t identify with gender sounds to me like one of those “autistic people are outside of social awareness” myths that floats around a lot.

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  1. narciii reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone and added:
    ^^ My relationship with gender is more complicated than many AC people I know, but I definitely feel like I am in some...
  2. genderpatrol reblogged this from clatterbane
  3. clatterbane reblogged this from withasmoothroundstone
  4. withasmoothroundstone reblogged this from autistic-mom and added:
    Yeah, seriously. I may be genderless, but that doesn’t mean all autistic people are. I know plenty of autistic people...
  5. feliscorvus reblogged this from chavisory and added:
    Yeah, same here. I know plenty of autistic people who identify as a particular gender and who never had any questions...
  6. lysikan reblogged this from autistic-mom and added:
    I usually get told I shouldn’t identify as a woman because one X (and one broken X) chromosome and non-functioning...
  7. chavisory reblogged this from autistic-mom and added:
    I do not do not do not believe that autistic people can’t wholly identify with gender. I know others besides you who do.
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