Aspies For Freedom

The reason all these preservatives are put into food is to make them keep longer. So you trade a higher chance of getting food poisoning for the chance of bad reactions to the preservatives.

Colourings are put into foods to make them look more appealing but again, some of the artificial colours give bad reactions to people.

If possible, it's a really good thing to grow at least some of your own fruit and veges but you need netting to keep out the birds and other creatures that will eat them before you can pick them.

I drank some cheap wine had rapid cycling mood swings (the vodka and the sensory overload did not help) at a staff xmas party.  As soon as I drank the wine I started to fall asleep people assummed it was because I was drunk at the same time I was stuck in my head because we were at a comedy venue with 300 people sat at the end of large table with one person who can't stand me and two strangers.  Still I fell asleep not deliberately and not because I was tired either.  I came round and was hyper everyone was annoyed for my bad behaviour.  A bad experience.  Now I am cutting out all additives of anysort, especially artificial preservatives, flavourings and colours (if it don't say its free I don't have it, one major supermarket own brands does not say its free of these things in its products so I don't buy own brands from them).  I also get catarrh when having these products.

Artificial sweeteners can give you diarrhoea. I think it is better to have a moderate amount of sugar than artificial sweeteners because at least sugar is natural.

i think the idea of "male" and "female" brains is a destructive stereotype. there are stereotypic male and female behaviours that are cultural, not inborn- the differences between male and female brains are minimal, and within a single sex there are vast variations of natural tendencies towards one extreme or the other.

just be yourself.

I agree to .jaime., female behaviour isn't inborn.
So don't you worry =)
Wikipedia says something about women asperger's being more like male's, rather than most female's.

I seem to have resisted much of the socialisation to be "typically female" (quite often quite unconsciously) and it was wondered why this was so. It must have been the autism.

A lot of stuff in this thread pretty much sums me up. I am a straight female (and despite those statisitics you always read about, I have never even been curious about having a same-sex encounter), but I think a lot of the time when people first meet me, they are certain I am a lesbian.

I have a pretty low, kind of masculine voice, and my speech patterns tend to resemble a male's more than a female's (by female I mean the typical giggly, "omg rly?" NT female). I wear big (usually black) hoodies, blue jeans, and my favorite beanie every day, and you'll never catch me in a skirt or dress. I love playing videogames like Final Fantasy and Grand Theft Auto (I like blowing things up in it and yelling rather masculine things like "Yeah! That was **** awesome, man!"). I think Jackass is God's gift to the world.

Most of my friends are guys, though I must admit, I am way more manly than a lot of the guys I know. That's not to say I'm not feminine at all. I like looking good... I like wearing a bit of make-up and I wear girls jeans to show off my curves (I think I have a nice ***). I like my lips too, and I wear chapstick to make them shiny (lip gloss and lipstick are a bit over the top for me). I also have a lot of piercings in my ears, and I like the way earrings look, and I have an awesome antique ring I wear every day.

I wear dresses quite a lot but always wear flat shoes and very rarely wear make-up.

other than my rejection of the male and female brain as corruptive stereotypes, i have another problem with this theory. the male aspie i know is not an ultra male stereotype- quite the contrary. he has little interest in sex as conquest, dominating others in the workplace, or displaying his status and power through ostentatious displays. he also looks very boyish, with his face and body showing less than typical masculinization.

I'm bisexual, and I'm androgynous (Callista, why do you think being androgynous is a disorder?).

In fact, until I started to expand my horizons and ventured beyond my nerdy band of friends, I discovered to my horror that there were a good many women who liked being "girly girls" and guys who were glad they were "guys," and all of the hang-ups that entailed.  I thought people were more evolved than that, and looked at each other like human beings, and not objects to be manipulated.

While I am trying to be more accepting of NTs' weird ideas about gender and sex, I have to say, relating back to Fruitcake's original question, I relate to her emotional roller coaster.  I do the two week thing of moodiness, depressive reactions, anger, etc., until my first day of my cycle.  Then it's like-wow, I feel pretty good now.  Well, except for the cycle itself.

I was dx with PCOS, yet I have too much estrogen.  An atypical case.  

And I am in the throes of pre-menopause, too, with things changing, and then settling back down.  I just wish my bod would get it over with a little early.

Metta, Jaye

I can somewhat relate to that. I don't let people I don't know or don't like dominate me, which can occasionally get me in risky situations. I would sometimes yell at my bosses at work because they were assholes and refuse to do something they told me to do if it would hurt the animals I was taking care of (I worked at a chain pet store). They knew that they needed me more than I needed them, however, so I didn't get in trouble for that. The good thing is that I usually realize when it is best to let someone else have authority, particularly if I don't know what I am doing.

Perhaps because I have a relatively masculine mind, I often think I should work to masculinize my body as well (by working out and stuff). I'm only 5'4" and not very muscular, so if some day I got into a fist fight, I would probably not be able to win unless it was against another woman sort of my size. I like how my body is curvy and feminine, but I also want to be able to able to physically defend myself if necessary. Maybe I'll start lifting weights or something.

I don't understand that either... I brush my hair every morning and ten minutes later is looks exactly the same as when I woke up (but not tangly at least). I shower at night so I don't style or put anything in my hair ever. I think most women put a lot of chemicals in their hair to keep it from getting messy immediately, at least, that's what I know my mom and sisters do.

Yeah, last year when I was at university I would ride my bike to all of my classes (which probably totalled to at least a few miles every day), and I felt a lot more fit than I do now. My current location is just made up of steep hills, though, so riding my bike isn't really practical anymore unless I load it up in my car and take it somewhere. I might get my bike fixed up and start doing that, however, because I miss not having that kind of strength and stamina anymore.

I used to do that in the past, but I got sick of having to wake up so early and hop in the shower, especially since I sometimes have to leave the house no later than 6:00 am. When it boils down to it, I would rather just have slightly messy hair during the day than get up two hours before I have to leave and spend time showering and then drying/styling my hair. I don't know how to do anything with my hair anyway, and it takes forever to dry it with the hairdryer on the cooler, lower setting (the high setting is too loud to have right next to my head). To indicate just how clueless I am when it comes to style - I don't even know how to tie my hair into a ponytail.

I can't subscribe to the idea that our aspie traits are a sin.