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Hypermasculinity in autism

ANTHONY LAF

ANTHONY LAF

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I'm hyper masculine and autistic. I'm ONLY into things that are usually associated with males, MMA, death metal, etc. Also I have an EXTREMELY low digit ratio. Those of you who have never heard of such a thing.

Digit ratio - Wikipedia
 
I am hyper femmine and.... a female lol and into soft rave music. Used to be into black sabbath and now my fav is Taylor Swift.

Also love listening to my faith's music.
 
My ring finger and index finger are even. I even measured from bone end to tip. I have trouble understanding how things are either masculine or feminine. I have very little sense of that. It all seems so superficial and trivial. My sister wears make up a bit and likes some sorta goth metal stuff, I wear no make up and like polka. No idea what all that says or if somehow my fingers are involved. I did find out I have Morton's toe, a new point of pride for me. Does that have any connection to any of this?
 
I'm a girl, and consider myself to be pretty feminine. I've heard the theory that autism is related to masculinity before, but that's never been the case for me. I think it just depends on the person.
 
kay said:
My ring finger and index finger are even. I even measured from bone end to tip. I have trouble understanding how things are either masculine or feminine. I have very little sense of that. It all seems so superficial and trivial. My sister wears make up a bit and likes some sorta goth metal stuff, I wear no make up and like polka. No idea what all that says or if somehow my fingers are involved. I did find out I have Morton's toe, a new point of pride for me. Does that have any connection to any of this?
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I used examples of MMA and Death Metal as examples because if you to an MMA event or a death metal show it is almost all men. (less so nowadays for ufc though)
 
I have a high digit ratio. one of the few sports I like watching is MMA first came into contact when unemployed would spend time at library read lots of magazines started reading a matial arts magazine Then saw some rental videos on fights do not like boxing wrecks head "brain". However ground game I really liked, more celebrial
Now see contrast in politics If big guy does not understand ground game little guy wins. IncIdently my wife really likes MMA, has her favorite athletes. Guess she likes the hot guys.
 
ANTHONY LAF said:
I'm hyper masculine and autistic. I'm ONLY into things that are usually associated with males, MMA, death metal, etc. Also I have an EXTREMELY low digit ratio. Those of you who have never heard of such a thing.
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Heh. I've been more prone to hang out with females than males because I usually find their conversations not only more interesting, but to have more depth. I also enjoyed cooking and sewing and crafts much more than traditional male activities when I was younger. I completely ignored sports. Everyone thought I was gay and there was surprise when I got married.

"You're married??"

"Yes."

"TO A FEMALE????"

:rolleyes:
 
I don't recall the last time I felt like I had to dissect my gender traits. Maybe I could do that now, but...
 
I have an interest in things that are considered to be more feminine but I also like some things considered to be masculine for one reason or another.
 
This whole idea of "hypermasculinity", "toxic masculinity", "feminine males", etc. just proves that there is too much emphasis on identity as a ideology. It's a 'extra bonus' to have ASD as part of that. Not that ASD being part of our identity is inherently bad. But if it's used in the form of virtue signaling. Then it's just as much a insult, whether the said person actually has ASD or not.

This is why I think people, myself included, need to wash themselves of such things. It's all irrelevancies based on 'look at me'.
 
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