connection between aspergers/trans
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transHey, new member here. I'm a 19 year old mtf college student, pre-everything. I have a kind of strange question and I don't know if anyone here knows anything about it, but I figured I'd ask anyway.
When I was in 7th grade, I was in a "gifted" class that didn't really interest me at all. I was usually a good student but I thought that particular class was really boring. Compounded with not having really any friends at the time and puberty, I grew really frustrated and was prone to random fits of rage in the class. My parents took me to a psychologist suspecting that I had aspergers (because it's in the family) but he said I didn't.
Since then my parents say that I seem to have gotten much better with my behavior. But I still have had several things happen to me that point strongly to symptoms of aspergers. I got fired from a job this past summer, for example, because I was unable to read when people were upset at me and I was lousy at following instructions. I've taken a few online quizzes that placed me very highly as someone with aspergers (not that those are super reliable sources, but they're worth mentioning). My girlfriend, who's brother has aspergers, keeps insisting that I have it, based on problems we've had with emotional interaction and my overall awkwardness. So before I fully realized I was mtf, I thought I had aspergers.
Now I know that there unmistakably feminine aspects of my personality, and given past experiences, the kind of obsessions I had, and feeling like I'm in the wrong body, I'm almost completely sure of my trans-ness. But that doesn't seem to explain the other traits I have. I undoubtedly have a lot of really obsessive and detail-oriented traits that don't seem to me to be very directly connected to being trans. But a lot of the behavior I've heard of trans folks experiencing also seems similar to characteristics of aspergers - bursts of anger, physical and mental awkwardness, a feeling of being "weird" or not fitting in anywhere, etc.
Does anyone know if there's a direct connection between the two? Is it possible to have both? Or can someone have many of the traits characteristic of aspergers but still just be trans? The last couple months have been really confusing for me...I don't feel like I know anything about myself or have any control over how I come off to other people. I'd really appreciate any insight into this subject. Thanks!
When I was in 7th grade, I was in a "gifted" class that didn't really interest me at all. I was usually a good student but I thought that particular class was really boring. Compounded with not having really any friends at the time and puberty, I grew really frustrated and was prone to random fits of rage in the class. My parents took me to a psychologist suspecting that I had aspergers (because it's in the family) but he said I didn't.
Since then my parents say that I seem to have gotten much better with my behavior. But I still have had several things happen to me that point strongly to symptoms of aspergers. I got fired from a job this past summer, for example, because I was unable to read when people were upset at me and I was lousy at following instructions. I've taken a few online quizzes that placed me very highly as someone with aspergers (not that those are super reliable sources, but they're worth mentioning). My girlfriend, who's brother has aspergers, keeps insisting that I have it, based on problems we've had with emotional interaction and my overall awkwardness. So before I fully realized I was mtf, I thought I had aspergers.
Now I know that there unmistakably feminine aspects of my personality, and given past experiences, the kind of obsessions I had, and feeling like I'm in the wrong body, I'm almost completely sure of my trans-ness. But that doesn't seem to explain the other traits I have. I undoubtedly have a lot of really obsessive and detail-oriented traits that don't seem to me to be very directly connected to being trans. But a lot of the behavior I've heard of trans folks experiencing also seems similar to characteristics of aspergers - bursts of anger, physical and mental awkwardness, a feeling of being "weird" or not fitting in anywhere, etc.
Does anyone know if there's a direct connection between the two? Is it possible to have both? Or can someone have many of the traits characteristic of aspergers but still just be trans? The last couple months have been really confusing for me...I don't feel like I know anything about myself or have any control over how I come off to other people. I'd really appreciate any insight into this subject. Thanks!
