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I could have written that opening post – you’ve described me perfectly – right down to being able to beat my husband at arm wrestling!
I think we’ve just not fallen for it – ‘it’ being this notion that women are ‘other’, that men are the default and women are what’s left over. So we’ve got more to talk about and more to say than the women who are trapped in the vanities of appearance and gossip. Maybe we just aren’t as susceptible to gender stereotypes because we were ‘inattentive’ to them growing up!
My friends have nearly always been men, except for a few close female friends (who have never known each other.) The women have always been different – gifted, ADHD, dyslexic, dyspraxic – interesting, flighty, challenging. The men have mostly been geeky – super smart and often on the aspie side.
I wonder why the difference (gender wise.) Why don’t I spend time with aspie women and men with SpLDs?
Hmmm. There’s a ponderama.
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