Gender, Autism and Developmental Disabilities

(Visit: www.uctv.tv/) Finn Gratton, Psychotherapist. Recorded on 03/08/2018. Series: "Developmental Disabilities Update" [Professional Medical Education] [Show ID: 33514]

[@liberosisnow]

WTF just happened in 6:42 ?

[@demiseruin8043]

I skipped ahead because it was rambling and then when I did skip ahead she talked a bit and then randomly started singing. This is all over the place, I have no clue what's going on.

[@Snafuski]

My heavens was this lady confusing.

[@adriasorensen2249]

Ok, so I have autism and I'm trying to figure out my gender identity... I was born as a female but going through puberty was terrifying for me. When I started through puberty, I was too terrified to even see my body change. Around 7th grade, I would get up at 5:30 am and shower in the dark wearing a bathing suit because I was too afraid to see myself naked. I dreaded getting my period and didn't tell anyone. The first time I got my period, I didn't even wear a pad and wore black pants to hide blood and was in denial. After a few days, I felt uncomfortable and knew I needed to started using a pad. However, I was too terrified to see the blood . I would change my pad with my eyes closed and put the used pad in a brown paper sandwich bag, because I was to terrified to see blood from my body as a way to avoid seeing my body going through puberty. This way I could about or be in denial about my kid body developing into a woman's body. I never wanted to grow like Peter pan because I just horrified going through puberty. It wasn't until I was in college and had a few sexual experiences and sexual desires in order to eventually one day be able to look at myself naked for the first time in like 6 years. Not sure how that magically seemed to happen one day, but I'm guessing the sex urges helped me overcome my fear seeing myself naked... since It's kind of hard to get laid fully clothed. I didn't even know that I had sex dysphoria or that it even existed. The first time I learned or heard the word nombinary was in my thirties. I had no clue and still know very little about gender dysphoria and want to learn about it. I mean, I think It's pretty obvious that my experience going through puberty is not normal. To this day, I wear men's clothing and never want to get pregnant. I would die from the terror and trauma of having to give birth...serioysly. I'd either have to have an abortion or die from a heart attack before my body starts going into labor. No, me giving birth would be the equivalent of you letting a grizzly bear bite your head off and being eaten alive. In addition, I never liked the thought of adhering to gender female roles in our society and feel repulsed and offended by people who have tried to force me to "act like a girl or assume I like something or am a certain way just because I'm a girl. Anyway, I need to explore or figure out my identity. All I know for sure is that I am not a cis female and in general that the whole gender thing really just pisses me off.

[@mishapurser7542]

Confusing start, but overall interesting presentation. Nothing I haven't heard before but at least its all in one place.

[@nitefox4411]

Tony Atwood confirms...

[@manchitas3531]

I'd appreciated a warning before that donkey yowling session

[@StaringCompetition]

Appreciated the presentation, thanks.

[@pazobackenstein6473]

This person is crazy

[@jnbalmer448]

Postmodern babble

[@nitefox4411]

Their book is brilliant.

[@soymilk5501]

Why would you risk clouding your identity with external projections that could be false