Demystifying Autistic Gender

• By: Bernard Grant, PhD Writer, Editor, and Neurodiversity Advocate
• September 29th, 2022
• actually autistic, autigender, Fall 2022 Issue, gender, gender diversity, gender dysphoria, gender identity, logical thinking, neurodiversity, social constructs
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Search online to learn about Autistic gender and you’ll find a range of allistic (nonautistic) articles stating that the link between autism and gender “diversity” and “dysphoria” are “not so clear.” Researchers apparently “do not yet understand why” there’s a strong correlation...

An Exploration of Why Autistic Adults Are Practicing Consensual Non-Monogamy

• By: Janet Walsh-Adams, BPsychSc(Hons) Mark A. Stokes, PhD Healthy Autistic Life Lab at Deakin University School of Psychology
• September 27th, 2022
• actually autistic, asexuality, Fall 2022 Issue, gender identity, non-monogamy, polyamory, relationships, research study, social difficulties
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Autistic people are more likely to report difficulty making and sustaining relationships,1-3 leading to assumptions that they aren’t drawn to socializing, but we now know that autistic people desire and benefit from platonic, romantic, and physical relationships to a similar degree as...

“Labels Do Not Describe Me” Gender Identity Among Women on the Autism Spectrum

• By: Eva Mendes, MA, LMHC Hillary Hurst Bush, PhD
• October 1st, 2016
• diagnosis, female, gender, gender identity, sexuality, women and girls
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A large number of women with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) are currently undiagnosed or misdiagnosed. In the United States, for every four males diagnosed with ASD, only one female is diagnosed (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2012). While there is likely to be a true sex difference in...