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>>10600525
> According to him, however, I and any other girl are slightly on the spectrum just for being tomboys.
>>10607465
>I'm arguing tomboys aren't on the spectrum.

Tony Attwood does not say this. It's simply a strawman you have created. You should see >>10602578 .

Here's a transcript starting at 12:40 in the video

> Now for the girls ... yeah, they have their special interests as a part of the actual syndrome is that, because the syndrome includes social confusion. My definition of aspergers is very clear, it describes someone who in life has found something more interesting than socializing, but they live with social zealots. So a characteristic is, yes, there is social confusion, it's routines and repetetive behavior, high levels of anxiety, so you impose routines and rituals and so on, but you have special interests. Now that interest may last hours, it may last decades. With the boys it's Thomas The Tank engine and all those sorts of things, but for the girl it may be horses. And people will say "Lotsa girls like horses", but it's July and she's moved the matress into the stable. All she thinks about is "horses horses horses".

Such intelligent thread.