@LoveInfamy's banner p

LoveInfamy

I feel suddenly and deliberately attacked.

0 followers   follows 2 users  
joined 2022 December 02 11:29:04 UTC
Verified Email

				

User ID: 1950

LoveInfamy

I feel suddenly and deliberately attacked.

0 followers   follows 2 users   joined 2022 December 02 11:29:04 UTC

					

No bio...


					

User ID: 1950

Verified Email

You seem to be replying to an unrelated point I didn't make.

The m:f ratio of clinically relevant autism is cited as something like 3~4:1

Autism is more prevalent among trans people, by a factor of about 4:1 on top of that.

Among the mtf tech people I know (and I know quite about 3 in person, two of them well), none strike me as obviously autistic, and the two I said I know well actually were what I would describe as alpha nerds with above-average smoothness and social intelligence, though there's obviously a more complex selection effect there.

"Obviously autistic" doesn't necessarily mean much, since autistic people without cognitive disabilities tend to have learned ways to compensate for or hide the things that would normally make their autism obvious ("masking") by the time they reach adulthood.

Did you know either of those people before they transitioned? Because one of the things I noticed, as an autistic trans woman myself, was that estrogen makes it a lot easier to understand and care about what other people are thinking. So I wonder if maybe they were just so competent at masking already that adding hormones pushed them into "above-average social intelligence" territory.

No matter how much you attempt to detach from it, you will still find yourself emotionally attached to this thing that you created, as if it was another part of you.

I don't want to detract from the pain you went through in that situation, but please don't assume everyone who goes through an abortion will have the same feelings about it that you did.

I went through something similar with my girlfriend around that same age - we were both 22, I think. I felt no emotional attachment to it myself. I can't know everything that went through her mind, but she certainly didn't give any indication that she had any emotional attachment to it either. And looking back at it, many years later, I can say that I've never felt any shame or regret about it whatsoever.