Re: Women and Asperger's Syndrome

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• asperger's
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• aspergers
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• women
• girls

[tesssssssful]

its not so much imaturity, girls who have it, tend to be mature in alot of aspects, but as their friends begin to go thru that faze of becoming young adults, girls with asbergers lag behind in the department of learning whats acceptable and cool in amoungst their age group, and dont develop the natural, instinctive ways of changing from a girl to a lady. when i went through that stage, i lagged till about the age of 16, then thought oh shit its time to catch up now, so started mimicing behavior

[evTom14]

@tesssssssful maybe imaturity was the wrong word to use, as for girlas with aspergers, i know it can be different between genders and theres not alot known about females with aspergers as the majority of sufferers are male

[cheziala]

LOL i thought my shrink was telling me i had Ass burgers!!! I was like well THAT is fitting that is about how it feels..... and to understand immaturity you have to have some connection of difference to your emotional maturity compared to average "healthily connected" people. She is dead accurate. I could care less about what other girls where into i just wanted to be around Horses. I understood them......

[evTom14]

yeah ok, i get what you mean, and i can relate

[AnnaMayEyes]

As a preteen/teen, I felt a marked disparity between my social immaturity (I still liked cartoons, dolls, being with my parents, I was not interested in boys or makeup or fashion) and my behavioral maturity (I did not exhibit the silliness and giggling stupidity that one normally sees in a group of teenage girls. I could carry on a mature conversation with adults.). I never liked being around teenagers, and I still don't.

[nononsenseinrational]

Immaturity in social behavior maybe? Or in maintenance task...

[JustEmbers]

Mature right up until the meltdown hits. :-) That is startling for people who end up seeing me have a meltdown. I'm usually mature and rational, but then the occasional meltdown hits and suddenly my maturity and rationality go out the window. I think, also, part of the immaturity perception is that we don't tend to grow out of things as quickly as others. We won't as easily understand why, to be accepted, we should give up things we enjoyed as children.

[ahmadomusic]

Hmm, there's this one girl at my university support group who's pretty immature, but that's because (I think) she is very focused on doing the things that the majority of girls her age are doing (i.e. going to bars, dating guys for the sake of it, looks, etc.) She's not interested in any deep discussions, and interestingly for an Aspie, does not seem to be much of a systematizer. On the other hand, her social awareness seems quite poor. I wonder if it has to do with personality.

[lu4y4pants]

As an "Aspie," I often take interest in childlike activities along with acting like an adult, mostly from imitating them when I was younger.

[DarkestHeart266]

i would say that people with aspergers are not immature but somewhat childish.

[OpheliaRain7]

love how you pronounce aspergers as 'asberjers' its fun ; )

[SepherStar]

@aspend Well, I get it.