A Male Mind

 

 

Hardcore research mode has led me to an interesting idea. Now once again people this is just for entertainment purposes and I'm not any kind of authority on anything so don't take my word for it.

 

So I'm hunting for information on ASD and ADHD-CT in girls and not having much luck on getting any kind of stats and I'm scrolling through my google finds when this EMB theory comes up and it mentions PCOS as a potential cause for autism/ ADHD?

 

Hold up, I have PCOS, (poly cystic ovarian syndrome), but I thought the mysterious "they" had determined that autism genetic code was passed down from the father? I thought I was off the hook for this.  Well anyways EMB turned out to stand for extreme male brain caused by an overabundance of testosterone in the womb?

Ok my hormone levels are whacky that could've happened.

 

Yup so we all know male and female brains are different, Mars vs Venus etc. What I took from what I was reading is that Simon Baron-Cohen theorizes that male brains are better at systemizing, finding patterns, mathematics etc while female brains are better at empathizing recognizing social and emotional changes, cues and causes. Most brains can do both men leaning more to the S systemizing type and women lean more to the female E empathizing type etc. but when you get to the extreme S type you lose the E type skills and that this explains autism and ADHD diagnoses being attached to boys over girls statistically speaking.

 

 ( disclaimer again do your own research, I was reading this http://personal.lse.ac.uk/kanazawa/pdfs/JTB2005a.pdf )

 

Anyways this got me to thinking about double standards of behavior for boys and girls and how much my Tigerlily stands alone as having both predominately male disorders. & I remembered that when Tiger was starting school etc how I told her educators to think of her as a little boy. To try to school their responses and reprimands by always thinking if a little boy did this, would I say anything?

 

I'm very annoyed by gender stereotyping, I want equality for my daughter in all things and I do my best to ensure that she understands that men and women are equal. So this new diagnosis has brought this up again for me and with the Womens' March and the United State Of Women campaign and all the conversations Tiger and I have been having about equality between the sexes, equal rights etc.

 I just thought the concept of her having an extreme male brain in a female body was interesting. I wonder if this extreme male brain would affect her sexuality? Will she go into a predominately male field of work as an adult etc.

 

Again just interesting to me and thought I'd share it.

 

The High Functioning Life , another day means another theory.

 

 

HFL Mama