#Autismgender

[hellishboots]

Gender iz a buffet and im sampling everything on the menu. Fuck staying in the 'right line,' we r commiting gender gluttony 2night boiz

[lawofcollage]

Autigender, also known as autisgender or autismgender, is a neurogender which can only be understood in the context of being autistic, or when one’s autism greatly affects one’s gender and/or how one experiences gender. Autigender is not autism as a gender, but rather describes an experience of gender that is so heavily influenced by being autistic that one’s autistic identity and one’s experience of gender cannot be unlinked.

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[areyouthisidentity-polls]

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Autigender, also known as autisgender or autismgender, is a neurogender which can only be understood in the context of being autistic, or when one's autism greatly affects one's gender and/or how one experiences gender. Autigender is not autism as a gender, but rather describes an experience of gender that is so heavily influenced by being autistic that one's autistic identity and one's experience of gender cannot be unlinked.

[auti-coining]

♾️★ Autiskrunkly

[PT: ♾️★ Autiskrunkly. End PT]

A gender in the genderskrunkly system in which someone's gender is connected to being autistic and being skrunkly, or a skrunkly who is autistic.

[our-queer-experience]

Why is autismgender a thing??? Like it has nothing to do with your gender???

so i covered it here, actually, but let me copy and paste!

“so a lot of autistic people are transgender. there’s been a few studies on this and one metastudy, and we don’t know too much about this correlation. some autistic people, quite a lot actually, feel disconnected from the idea of gender in the first place. whether this is genetic and biological or the product of being raised autistic in our society, we have no idea. a lot of people find that the way they experience their gender is so heavily influenced by their autism and since that’s their defining experience, they call themselves autigender or autismgender. it’s mostly a thing found online, but it’s completely valid and should be respected.

as an autistic trans person, my gender and my autism arent correlated at all, but that’s just one experience. there’s a book that’s a collection of case studies that i recommend for a more in depth experiences”

[themogaidragon]

i just found your autigender symbol via another post and it looks so cool! does it have a specific meaning?

[IMAGE ID: A black infinity symbol with a horizontal line in the left loop and a circle in the right loop. END ID]

Meaning:

Infinity symbol: autism and the inifnite gender experiences autistic people have.

Horizontal line: everything part of gender that can be modified by autigenderness. Including but not limited to: gender fluidity, non-binary ness, gender alignment, genderlessness, being xenogender, etc.

Circle: everything surronding gender that can be modified by autigenderness. Including but not limited to: gender expression, gender non conformity, orientation, being intersex, masculinity, femininity, pronouns, gender hoarding, etc.

I have updated the coining post with the meanings! Please share this post or the updated original coining post.^^ /serious

[tacobellebandit]

I see a lot of people making meanspirited jokes about terms that they don't understand because they seem ridiculous, but in those jokes it's obvious that they don't even want to try to understand either otherwise they would have asked instead of outright saying it's ridiculous and mocking it.

But if you actually ask someone who identifies that way you get a very thoughtful and introspective explanation that sometimes challenges your our preconceptions of X thing (gender, sexuality, etc etc). But only if you even cared to be a little curious.

[self-loving-vampire]

i appreciate that you have such a normal perspective on discourse (in my opinion) i am a trans man with a very similar perspective on gender/transition to you (i.e. i dont really think gender is real per se and certainly says nothing of your moral character but i have aesthetic preferences wrt the way my body looks) so maybe thats part of why i appreciate the way you talk about things lol esp since a lot of the "transandrophobia" people are just as obsessive/overbearing as their opponents imho

Unfortunately I don't think I can call my own views on this "normal" in a world in which gender essentialism and oppositional sexism are the norm, even among progressive queers. The idea that there are no huge fundamental and non-overlapping differences between men and women is alien to most people.

I grew up autistic and naturally curious and skeptical in a country infamous for extreme sexism (reinforced by the catholic church) and anti-LGBT discrimination at such level that I had to become an international refugee. It's not a good place to be in generally.

Questioning those norms the way I questioned things like handshakes or school uniforms came naturally, and I was never satisfied by thoughtless answers like "because that's just how it is" or "because I said so".

The whole gender roles thing seemed incredibly artificial and detrimental to me. Just one of the many, many things society was doing wrong that I could do better (I was always kind of narcissistic like that, but at least I'm the type of person who easily resists normative influence).

If not for the fact that it's not a commonly-understood term (and so would complicate communications) I would describe myself primarily as autismgender but ultimately that part feels much less important compared to my bodily autonomy. I care more about being able to modify my body how I want than about how that gets labeled.

[freckliedan]

amazingphil autismgender

okay this is so real. it's not something i've talked about on this blog but the autistic disconnect from understanding arbitrary, constructed societal expectations and norms absolutely extends to gender SO OFTEN.

can't succeed at being a man or a woman if full, natural understanding of what that means will forever be beyond you. can't succeed at being a man or woman if your sensory needs and dexterity prevent you from executing gender performance within the realm of what's "normal"/"correct".

for some autistics this leads to a lifetime of misery from trying and failing to conform. for other sexier autistics this leads to intentionally failing gender in a myriad of interesting ways and phil's gender being faggot absolutely falls into this category imo!

[cishetlessfashion]

Kinderwhore riot grrrl trans autismgender fashion with human teeth for anon Denture rings Cupcake skirt Sheer pink babydoll dress Bloody teeth pin Teeth necklace Soap bubbles crop top Autigender flag pins Bloody teeth patch Sweet tooth enamel pin Pink skull kandi bracelet

[thescaryhyperfem]

the amount of misconception about autismgender (or really, ANY neurogender) is insane actually

[lawofcollage]

Autigender, also known as autisgender or autismgender, is a neurogender which can only be understood in the context of being autistic, or when one’s autism greatly affects one’s gender and/or how one experiences gender. Autigender is not autism as a gender, but rather describes an experience of gender that is so heavily influenced by being autistic that one’s autistic identity and one’s experience of gender cannot be unlinked.

[roughentumble]

i know everyone says pansexual deadpool and i do agree with that all rights to pansexual deadpool but considering there are aliens in marvel i feel like omnisexual would have been coined to mean something different in-universe, like "attracted to all genders and species and mutations" and there's a bunch of terms for mutant4mutant within the queer community in the same way there's autismgender, and people get really mad about mutant vs mutate within the dating scene and there's a thousand microlables for each species you're attracted to with all varients between sexual romantic platonic sensual etc. and people get mad sometimes if you exclude a species that's sentient because you're not being fair and its like "saying you dont date black people, its speciest" while other people are like "literally some of them have tentacles some people are just not going to be into tentacles what do you want from them species is entirely different from race" and its so messy and everybody's fighting all the time so they dont notice when interspecies marriage gets banned in oklaholma for the 14th time. what was i saying

anyway yeah i think wade identifies with some in-universe term that means "literally everyone with conscious thought regardless of gender or species with no preferences"

[theholidayslingerlikebadperfume]

if you ask me what i see myself as, i would say "a person" like that's how I've always seen myself as.

but if you ask me how i would prefer to be addressed in this society, it's always going to be "a woman" but it's only because i was assigned female at birth and any attempt to deny me that role in society hurts, even if it's objectively true by gender role standards.

i would feel this exact same way if i was assigned male at birth but about presenting as a man instead.

i hate the term autismgender but do i understand now? .... kind of yeah.

like i understand the argument behind it but it makes me feel so icky to use to talk about my gender at all. but that is probably the closest to what i feel about my gender.

my autism makes my relationship to gender feel queer even if it's technically cisgendered on paper.

[our-queer-experience]

what is autismgender?

I saw someone talk about it once but lost the post. So I figured I’d ask here, so I can get a human answer (google uses too many long words)

so a lot of autistic people are transgender. there’s been a few studies on this and one metastudy, and we don’t know too much about this correlation. some autistic people, quite a lot actually, feel disconnected from the idea of gender in the first place. whether this is genetic and biological or the product of being raised autistic in our society, we have no idea. a lot of people find that the way they experience their gender is so heavily influenced by their autism and since that’s their defining experience, they call themselves autigender or autismgender. it’s mostly a thing found online, but it’s completely valid and should be respected.

as an autistic trans person, my gender and my autism arent correlated at all, but that’s just one experience. there’s a book that’s a collection of case studies that i recommend for a more in depth experiences

[themogaidragon]

I have updated the post with the meaning of the symbol, please reblog and share this updated version! :) /serious

Autigender Symbol

Some time ago I've shown the autigender symbols I had designed and asked yall what you thought about them, if you should change something, etc. But all your feedbacks were positive so I've decided to keep this design and to coin them "officially".

So, here they are, autigender symbols!

Meaning:

Infinity symbol: autism and the inifnite gender experiences autistic people have.

Horizontal line: everything part of gender that can be modified by autigenderness. Including but not limited to: gender fluidity, non-binary ness, gender alignment, genderlessness, being xenogender, etc.

Circle: everything surronding gender that can be modified by autigenderness. Including but not limited to: gender expression, gender non conformity, orientation, being intersex, masculinity, femininity, pronouns, gender hoarding, etc.