Studies in psychiatric journals in the early 90s showed a link between autism and feminism.
The rise in autism has been attributed to women with masculine minds marrying men with masculine minds, leading to children with hyper masculine minds.
Furthermore a link has been shown to exist between autism and women and the diagnostic criteria for autism.
A study tested 4200 women at the University of New Hampshire. 677 women tested scored highly on the feminist belief scale, or feministic scale.
254 out of 677 women who scored highly on the feministic scale also ranked highly in restricted repetitive and stereotyped patterns of behavior, interests and activities. Usually their obsession focused around feminist issues whether real or contrived.
107 of the 677 women scored low on the qualitative social interaction scale.
430 out of the 677 women who scored highly on the feministic scale also scored highly on the masculine personality type scale.
Do you know any autistic feminists?
2007-09-25 18:22:08 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Social Science ➔ Gender Studies
This study was in a 1992 Issue of the Journal of Applied Psychiatric Medicine so you can look it up yourself if you like.
If a web link is absolutely necessary:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=477153&in_page_id=1879&ito=1490
2007-09-25 18:42:09 · update #1
Anna you are correct, and you can be correct about more males being diagnosed with autism than females but that still does not have any relevance to the high rate of autism among feminists, a subset of women rather than all women, as noted in the study only a minority of the women tested actually scored highly on the feministic scale.
2007-09-25 18:50:21 · update #2
The ' Hyper-Masculine Mind' is a working hypothesis of neurobiology wendy g. Furthermore you appear to have a rather obsessive need to prove yourself right. Perhaps caused by low self esteem, but nevertheless obsessive. Are you a feminist who has been diagnosed with autism by any chance? At the very least I would suggest that any children you have should be submitted for possible diagnosis immediately.
2007-09-25 19:12:53 · update #3
Actually, Wendy G., the " hyper- masculine mind " concept is more than conjecture. It is a working hypothesis of neurobiology.
Not that that has much to do with the rather stretched claims of the questioner.
2007-09-25 19:07:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
Not sure about the validity of the study or not, but in your link, the esteemed professor offers up his analysis about autism and feminism as conjecture to explain his findings, not a conclusion.
Also, I looked for the journal you reference. I can't find any reference at all on the web for that journal. Even if it is out of print, that's odd. Is it a vanity press, maybe?
2007-09-25 19:13:25 · answer #2 · answered by Steve-O 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I don't know about the report you read but males are four times more likely than females to have autism and there is NO KNOWN CAUSE for autism.
Wikipedia shows a 4.3 to 1 ratio for male to females diagnosed with autism. If your going to discuss a topic please be informed first.
Ok I read the article you got your "information" from. It had a very small section that even mentioned autism and it did not give the statistics that you refer to.
I will agree that men and women think differently.
My question to you is do you even know what autism is? If not here is some information for you.
Autism is a lifelong developmental disorder that affect the way a person communicates and relates to people and situations.
I know my nephew would laugh when he got hurt. He use to cover his ears and scream when the school bell rang or a teacher blew a whistle. Many do not understand the concept of danger. Many think literally example if you say it's time to hit the road they may literally go over and hit the road.
I hope that I have helped you understand autism a little more but if you need more information please visit The National Autistic Society's website.
2007-09-25 18:44:13 · answer #3 · answered by sara 3 · 12⤊ 3⤋
I haven't yet met an autistic person who cares about gender relations one way or another. 677 isn't even half of 4200 — is it possible that these women's beliefs were completely separate from their autism? And is it possible that the masculine personality type scale was the outdated BSRI, which states that ambition, confidence, and pragmatism are masculine traits?
2007-09-26 01:53:10 · answer #4 · answered by Rio Madeira 7 · 10⤊ 2⤋
Very amusing...care to provide a link? (wink)
No? Didn't think so.
EDIT--Okaay...but, still, no link to feminism and autism, nor have you provided a link that suggests "feminists" are more likely to be autistic.
And Baron Cohen's theory is just that, a theory that is untested and unsupported. That autism is just a "hyper-masculine" mind is nothing more than conjecture.
Really, I thought you were kidding, but you're serious? Holy crap.
2007-09-25 18:29:06 · answer #5 · answered by wendy g 7 · 10⤊ 4⤋
Wouldn't that be convenient for the likes of you? I am simply amazed on how far some of you would go to get a rise out of us. Your comments are bright examples of your ignorance... or might you be in possession of a frustrated autistic masculine mind yourself? Smile
2007-09-25 18:56:10 · answer #6 · answered by ms.sophisticate 7 · 6⤊ 5⤋
This has nothing to do with autism but it shows a general disregard for those who are dealing with it. You answers are highly unethical and for a family dealing with autism very cruel. This is not a joke for you to laugh about.
2007-09-25 20:34:20 · answer #7 · answered by Deirdre O 7 · 9⤊ 5⤋
Interesting.
And suspect.
I don't trust any studies which seek to pathologize political views, whether it's labeling people "misogynist" or "homophobic" or studies like this.
2007-09-25 18:38:38 · answer #8 · answered by Gnu Diddy! 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋