#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

[theflaggerrrr]

Howdy! Is there a flag for someone whose gender has been influenced / affected by their autism? Be it the way they process the world, their spinterests, etc. I recently got an official diagnosis and as I've contemplated it I've realized how much being autistic has affected the way I understand my own gender as well as gender in general.

Thank you, have a wonderful evening! ＼(^^)／

Here's a few I can remember:

Autigender

Neurogender

This list may be updated!

[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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

By: Max Eden

Published: Sep 19, 2023

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that gender ideologues believe that a man can identify as a woman. But did you know that you can identify as a rock?

This is the position of Gender Spectrum, arguably the most influential gender identity nonprofit in K-12 education. Gender Spectrum’s website says that it has “trained thousands of schools and school districts . . . building the capacities of tens of thousands of teachers, administrators . . . and other leaders to create gender inclusive environments.” The organization has partnered with the National Association of Secondary School Principals, the National PTA, the American School Counselors Association, and the School Superintendents Association, among others. With the National Education Association, it has released a 2015 report titled “Schools in Transition,” the first major policy paper arguing that social gender transitions should be kept secret from parents. And Gender Spectrum consulted on the CDC-endorsed National Sex Education Standards, which recommends promoting puberty blockers to third-graders.

Auditors from Open the Books examined a 2022 Gender Spectrum video training titled “Intro to Neoidentities and Neopronouns.” Naomi Cruz, then Gender Spectrum’s manager of family and educational programming, explained that it’s wrong to assume that gender identity should be confined to variants of male and female. Neopronouns and neo-identities help to break down the gender binary and move “away from a societal gender to a personal gender.” It is “impossible,” she explains, to know all potential gender identities or pronouns. But it’s “really important” to have an “intersectional understanding” of gender because race, religion, location, and even hobbies can affect people’s understanding of gender. (Though some gender theorists claim that gender identity is fixed and immutable, possibly requiring sterilizing hormones and castration, Gender Spectrum’s stance is that gender kinda depends on your hobbies.)

The current neo-identity movement, Cruz explains, got its start on Tumblr in the mid-2010s. These Tumblr posters introduced, among other things, emoji-self genders, with pronouns like J/Js/Jself. You could try to pronounce that as smiley/smileys/smileyself. But for many, the un-pronounceability is the point. Cruz explains that “by having pronouns that are essentially unable to be pronounced and can only be understood when typed online, we are completely distancing ourselves from the gender identities of man and woman.” She may have a point there.

Then there are noungenders—for example, rockgender, moongender, and foxgender. If a man identifies as a woman, then, according to gender ideologues, he truly is a woman. However, if a man identifies as the moon, he is not necessarily the moon. It might just mean that he identifies with society’s perception of the moon. Get it?

It is, however, important to note that you’re not permitted to assume a gender identity associated with another race, Cruz explains. A white person cannot identify as a black-related gender. A white person can, however, identify as a rock. And a black person could, of course, identify as a penguin.

You probably wouldn’t think that autism and borderline personality disorder are gender identities. But you would be wrong, says Cruz. There is autismgender and bordergender. There is also gendervague. Cruz couldn’t quite explain what this one meant, but you can only identify as gendervague if you are neurodiverse.

Anticipating objections, Cruz said that “of course” neogenders are “valid,” and “They are not taking it too far. They are a radical act of stepping away from a system that’s causing a lot of harm for folks.” Using neo-identities is “a way of undoing the gender binary and gender norms, which liberates everyone.”

This all might sound fringe, but Gender Spectrum is no fringe gender-identity organization. Few, if any, nonprofits have done more to influence how public education addresses gender identity and gender-identity issues. And Gender Spectrum believes that rockgender and autismgender are both valid gender-identity categories.

And who’s willing to say that they’re wrong? I contacted the National Education Association, the American School Counselors Association, the National Parent Teacher Association, and the National Association of Secondary School Principals to ask whether they also believe that emojis, rocks, and autism are all gender identities. None returned my request for comment.

That could be because it’s such an absurd question that their communications staff refused to dignify it with an answer. Or it could be because the first rule of gender ideology is that you don’t question the rules of gender ideology, and the second rule is that organizations like Gender Spectrum decide what those rules are—taking their cues, of course, from stuff teenage girls (or possibly rocks, who knows?) say on Tumblr.

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Religious lunatics have no place in schools.

Catholics, who think the bread and the wine literally becomes the substance of the body of Christ, think Scientology is crazy and Islam is obviously fake and nonsensical. They have entirely no basis to make this claim, as they use the same mechanism, faith, for their own beliefs. When you resort to faith, you open the door for anyone else to use it too, and you forfeit the ability to criticize it or anything done based on it, or gatekeep who can or can't use it. There is no limit to what someone can believe based entirely on faith. Either all faith is valid, or none.

There will be "they/them"s, "she/they"s and "xie/xir"s who think "rockgender" is crazy and "moongender" is obvioulsy fake and nonsensical. They have entirely no basis to make this claim, as they use the same mechanism, self ID, for their own beliefs. When you resort to subjective identification, you open the door for anyone else to use it too, and you forfeit the ability to criticize it or any identity invented based on it, or gatekeep who can or can't use it. There is no limit to what someone can claim to be based entirely on self ID. Either all claims are valid, or none. (And if you say all, just wait til you see what's coming next.)

You can have a deeply personal religious faith that is incontestable but for you alone, or you can have a religion that everyone should respect and which is therefore a matter of public concern and discussion. If we have to be involved, we get a say.

You can have a deeply personal sense of self that is unassailable but for you alone, or you can have an identity that everyone should respect and acknowledge and which is therefore a matter of public interest and opinion. If we must validate and affirm, then we get a say.

Their Catholicism is no different to me than Islam or Scientology. They can believe what they want, but I will not recognize or participate in any of them. Your religion is for you; it does not tell me what to do. If your religion demands others comply, then it's probably fake.

Your "they/them" is no different to me than "rockself" or "moonself." You can identify however you want, but I will not validate or affirm any of them. Your identity is for you; you do not get to tell me how I identify you. If your identity requires others to participate, then it's probably fake.

It was a mistake to pander to this in the first place. It's not "kind" to lie, or to expect others to do so.

[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.