Women with Asperger's

[slayerofdragons]

I think that there are more women with aspergers than the experts think. Asperger's in women is harder to diagnose because people think that these women are just quirky. I aslo think that Emma Caulfield has aspergers. She is shy, likes sci-fi shows, and likes to analyze things. We need to increase awareness about aspergers so that women with aspergers can receive early intervention.

 

[drifter5]

I think that there are more women with aspergers than the experts think. Asperger's in women is harder to diagnose because people think that these women are just quirky. I aslo think that Emma Caulfield has aspergers. She is shy, likes sci-fi shows, and likes to analyze things. We need to increase awareness about aspergers so that women with aspergers can receive early intervention.

Yes, i agree with this. There also needs to be more support and help available to people with Asperger's Syndrome, and High- functioning autism. I am a female who is diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. I am 30 and was only diagnosed 2 weeks ago !

 

[uniquetadpole]

Yes, i agree with this. There also needs to be more support and help available to people with Asperger's Syndrome, and High- functioning autism. I am a female who is diagnosed with Asperger's Syndrome. I am 30 and was only diagnosed 2 weeks ago !

I am 36 and wasn't diagnosed until I was 34... and in my search for help and understanding... I am finding that I would like to see not only help for women but adults in general...

In general... those people in therapy that are dealing with trauma issues (which is really the underlying cause of many mental issues) that men get stuck in anger and women get stuck in depression... and that there is probably something similar going on with women vs men with AS/HFA. I mean it is definitely more okay with our society for men to act out in anger than for women to... this gets picked up on and taught at an early age...both verbally and non-verbally... this has actually been proven somewhere I just don't know the sources.

And so there are in my opinion clearly differing issue for men and women with AS...

But I can not even find a support group to meet someone else with AS and I have been searching for two years... and now I have moved to a city with lots more help available...but still very little for adults on the spectrum.

I also agree with the amount of undiagnosed women out there. I appear so normal to others... no one even believes I have it. I have worked so hard on my communication skills on my own over the years... it was kind of my special interest for a long time... and I still have alot of difficulties with it...but I learned not to be assertive in order to compensate... now...I am working on my assertiveness skills and boy is the communication stuff eating me alive at times.

Hang in there Drifter... you in the beginning of a grief period that I have been going through for the last two years and am still working through... a grief of a loss of who I thought I was for 34 years... the best advise I can give you is allow yourself the time to work through it... it will be worth it... I am already seeing alot of progress... and I still have a long road to go to get through all of my trauma work... and the undiagnosis is the underlying cause but it lead to much more trauma that I still have left to deal with. Which is why it is so important to get these kids diagnosed at an early age...not to label them... but to get them the help to overcome the traumas that they have in front of them.

Tad