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Aug 06, 2022, 02:05 AM
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Member Since: Apr 2013
Location: Ontario Land
Posts: 3,592
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Originally Posted by Favorite Jeans
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I wonder how much of it has to do with the way people with ASD think?
There definitely seems to a biological component to gender identity (at least for me). I cannot fully explain this to myself and anyone else. Maybe it is how I think, that I am drawn to things a lot more than people. Maybe it has to do with androgen exposure while in utero. My personality traits, interests and cognitive style seem to have contributed to me gender identity. I just feel male in a female body and the stress it is causing me is getting worse with age.
I have no history of CSA or any other major trauma history that could possibly explain this. I'm sexually attracted to women, but I don't think my gender identity has anything to do with shame around that. It was present long before puberty.
I doubt I will ever know why I feel this way.
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