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Is anyone else autistic and grew up feeling like you couldn’t be a girl/woman? Like you just didn’t fit what was considered a girl/woman? Idk how to feel about it anymore
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Anonymous 15h

i grew up with 2 autistic men essentially raising me so i never really learned how to socialize or be a girl or a correct girl. i no longer think im transmasc but i don’t care about trying to be a girl. like ig i am but id rather u call me dude yk

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Anonymous 15h

Yep, bound my tits when I was in middle school. I HATED puberty. I now identify as agender (nonbinary) but my gender dysphoria isn’t really here anymore, so I use she/they pronouns. But yeah, I always feel like I’m cosplaying a woman when I wear stuff like dresses

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Anonymous 14h

yeaaaa and then i realized i was trans. switched back and forth between genders for a while. now im just whatever lol

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Anonymous 14h

I guess my big problem in life is figuring out if I’d rather be nonbinary, which feels more accurate to who I am, or be a woman, which is more acceptable to everyone but still just as targeted in this society. Either way I’m going to be a target and generally out of place

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Anonymous 15h

Identified as ftm for years post puberty because I thought if I wasn’t a girl I must be a boy, but I can’t fit in with men either so I’m just nonbinary now

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 15h

Idk if it’s autism or just my personality or both but I’ve always gotten along with boys easier than girls, like the humor and hobbies just match better for me idk. It feels like I just don’t have what it takes to be a woman, if people want to call me that it just makes me uncomfortable because it feels like a lie to say I am one

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

I don’t call myself trans but I don’t call myself a woman, I wish I could just be a Person without any pressure from both men and women to act a certain way to be accepted

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 15h

I also hate being called stuff like girlie and queen. It just feels wrong.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 15h

i think what i hate the most is being treated as a woman

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

Facts. Growing up with mostly male friends, you get used to the typical daily misogyny. I kind of wonder if my aversion to being a woman is because I hate how we’re just treated as people to talk over or have sex with.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 14h

This fr. I feel like if I grew up in an equal world, I wouldn’t really have a problem with being a woman, besides the usual period complaints lol

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 14h

Cosplaying is a GREAT way to put it On the rare occasion I try to dress more feminine or just mirror what I see other women my age wearing around campus, I feel like a fraud

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 11h

Honestly this is where I’m at rn too I feel like an imposter to myself to say I’m a woman But I fear being seen as an imposter by others if I came out as nonbinary or just straight up not being respected in my identity

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