
WeirdPanda
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Certainly this is the narrative they try to push to justify their disgust with non-NT behaviors in males, such as lack of warmth, weak emotional mirroring, obsessive interests. But I can affirm that autistic males are not coddled. Instead, I'm inclined to say that autistic men are extremely neglected (unlike women, or autistic women in general). Here is why:
Males in general are expected to be the superior gender. Women aren't. Men are expected to be "able" to do everything. Women are not.
This correlates with men having to adapt well, pull themselves up by the bootstraps, "manning up". Women do not have to do any of that--instead, they receive extra forgiveness from society for their mistakes unlike autistic men--we are the ones who are traditionally supposed to be breadwinners, who are supposed to spread our genes, fight the wars and be in charge of politics and countries. If you can't do any of that as a man then you're basically worthless. Autistic men tend to be less stoic than most other men and often have emotional issues that may or may not be treatable. We also have rejection sensitive dysphoria (also noticed in ADHD), something that is more acceptable in women than in men. This neglect affects other stuff as well, such as: not being able to achieve certain developmental milestones, not being taught general skills, social skills, etc.
From this, one can see why we tend to develop more egocentric tendencies than average. It all comes from the lack of support for our autism (in early diagnosed, traits tend to persist. In late diagnosed, you learn to hide them/become more passive yet still retain it). Prejudice against us is basically ableism, pronto. There is no justifying it but they do everything in their power to twist it. I personally think it's associated with the "white straight male bad" thought many of these people tend to have--even though I'm not white myself--I still believe they associate autism (specifically aspergers) with it. If all goes well, in the next coming years society should come to the realization that autistic people/autistic traits are heavily opressed/judged negatively in our society.
The word "coddled" unironically suits autistic women much more than autistic men. Autistic women do not have to worry about being neglected for autism like autistic men do.
Males in general are expected to be the superior gender. Women aren't. Men are expected to be "able" to do everything. Women are not.
This correlates with men having to adapt well, pull themselves up by the bootstraps, "manning up". Women do not have to do any of that--instead, they receive extra forgiveness from society for their mistakes unlike autistic men--we are the ones who are traditionally supposed to be breadwinners, who are supposed to spread our genes, fight the wars and be in charge of politics and countries. If you can't do any of that as a man then you're basically worthless. Autistic men tend to be less stoic than most other men and often have emotional issues that may or may not be treatable. We also have rejection sensitive dysphoria (also noticed in ADHD), something that is more acceptable in women than in men. This neglect affects other stuff as well, such as: not being able to achieve certain developmental milestones, not being taught general skills, social skills, etc.
From this, one can see why we tend to develop more egocentric tendencies than average. It all comes from the lack of support for our autism (in early diagnosed, traits tend to persist. In late diagnosed, you learn to hide them/become more passive yet still retain it). Prejudice against us is basically ableism, pronto. There is no justifying it but they do everything in their power to twist it. I personally think it's associated with the "white straight male bad" thought many of these people tend to have--even though I'm not white myself--I still believe they associate autism (specifically aspergers) with it. If all goes well, in the next coming years society should come to the realization that autistic people/autistic traits are heavily opressed/judged negatively in our society.
The word "coddled" unironically suits autistic women much more than autistic men. Autistic women do not have to worry about being neglected for autism like autistic men do.