For the autists on here, how did you answer the question of whether you were actually trans or if it was just the autism? Did you even think about that question before deciding to transition?
It was never a question. I have severe gender dysphoria that seems to be unrelated to my autism. At worst, it's a co-occurring condition. If you have questions, I'm happy to answer them.
>>43315712Did your dysphoria manifest before you knew gender dysphoria or transitioning was a thing? Do you think you could have been swayed into believing that your dysphoria was just due to your autism, in the case of you discovering harmful information about the twos overlap before your transition?
>>43315904>Did your dysphoria manifest before you knew gender dysphoria or transitioning was a thing?Yes, although obviously without a framework for it I didn't know precisely what it was. But male puberty was distressing for me in ways that didn't match what my peers were going through. The process of masculinization was traumatic and I often wished I had been born a girl even without knowing that trans people existed. I'm a pretty good case study for this because I genuinely had no idea trans people existed until I was 18 or 19 because of my restrictive religious upbringing. >Do you think you could have been swayed into believing that your dysphoria was just due to your autism, in the case of you discovering harmful information about the twos overlap before your transition?Hard to speculate, but I don't think so. I think the distress I have experienced outweighs any theories people could come up with to "explain" me. I generally don't like when people try to use my experience against me or explain it to me in a way that doesn't match my subjective experience.
I get scared one day I'll realise "oh.. I'm not trans.. this was just autism/apg/traanstrender sort of stuff" so vlive been trying to rep for years qnd years hoping one day I'll wake up and not feel trans
>>43315946I'm not you, and don't want to imply my experience will be yours, but I did that until age 29 and it never went away.
>>43315961To clarify, I didn't really deny my transness I just kind of didn't do anything about it and ignored it
>>43315946You seem like the opposite, so I'll ask you the same question.Did your dysphoria manifest before you knew gender dysphoria or transitioning was a thing?Do you think you would have actually transitioned by now if you didn't know about autism's connection to dysphoria?
>>43315689I gave it significant consideration: is it autism, is it body image issues, is it just wanting another life?eventually decided fuck it, I'm 39, on the edge of killing myself, and I wanted this since I was 6. Maybe this will help me. That was 3 years agoafter 3 weeks of hrt my head cleared up and I started processing old traumas (crying)after 6 months, I started feeling so open to others that I'm wondering if I ever had autism in the first place or if it was just repressionand after 3 years, I may not pass (too tall. At least my face got my mom's genes and I just need a little ffs) but I have no regrets except not starting sooner
>>43315689I don't really care, as I like my body how it is now (though I could stand to gain some weight and muscle) and testosterone is a quite effective mood stabilizer
>>43315689Helllo everybody my name is markiplier
>>43315689Not trans, very autistic, my reptilian mind is sufficiently disassociated from gender roles and other social cues that i'm taking HRT to stay cute and pretty so that my social faux pas remain charming quirks or at least forgivable, whereas if i was an ugly fat balding sperg people would already dislike me and just want an excuse to ignore or be mean to me. I am a firm believer in pretty privilege but rather than seethe about it play the game to win. No desire to be a woman or present fully as one. If asked i'd call myself a eunuch.
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>>43315689i never pondered the question because i don't give a shit it's not like I'm gonna stop being autistic
how does a diagnosis even help? will it make me normal and capable of making friends? can somebody please kill me?
>>43318324It's helpful if you genuinely need professional or academic accommodations or disability. That's about it.
>>43318324My diagnosis helped me because I wasn't really sure I had autism, I sort of thought I was just making up an excuse for my strangeness. But that was just a personal thing, It might not matter to you.It did make me briefly reconsider my transition though, and I worry that I might have gone down the pipeline of believing it was all the autism's fault if I hadn't transitioned before my diagnosis. Which is why I've always been interested in other people's thought process regarding their dysphoria and autism.
agonized over it for years and realized that dysphoria can be a misnomer and the simple persistent desire or interest can be a sign of the underlying issue, especially if it gets worse over time
>>43315689>or if it was just the autismwhat does that mean like ocd?a simple test is weather doing it causes you distress but you still do it almost like being driven to do it like a distressing obsession then it's ocd but if doing it is relaxing then the cause is dysphoria
>>43315689It's unimportant. Such a meme question.
>>43315689I didn't think about it that way I stripped away all social aspects of transition, and just focus on what taking HRT is objectively. Realized I wanted pretty much everything on the list (except for booba), so I said fuck it and took it. Now I think it's unironically feminizing my brain, even though I was doubtful about that effect, so I guess I'm just going to be a proper tranny.
>>43315689it was just the autism for mei realised im really into costumes and acting in general
>>43323691What does it mean that it is feminizing your brain?
>>43323701Did you ever actually think you were trans?
>>43315689I started doing girly stuff and it made me really happy so I did more and more of it until it was really obvious I'm a girl.
