Apsierqueer, a declaration of sickness
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Aspiequeer, a declaration of disease against the heteronorm
The panel conversation is full, and when the conversation starts you can hear whispears as “I feel like that as well”. And it is surely a subject that both touches and sometimes even can be a taboo, because it's about gender and biology and illness diagnoses.
A combination that often gives long and deep discussions about gender roles and the society at large. Immanuel, who's leading the conversation tells that you can say that persons with the Asperger syndrome often are biological queers because they have trouble seeing genderroles and adapt to them.
-But gender blindness is not something common for all, informs the blogger Johnny. He has never been genderblind, on the contrary obsessed by gender. But he agrees as the others about not treating the persons around after which gender they have, but individually.
Something that all four have in common is that they have had a hard time to fit In when the genderroles are obvious, when they are going out to the grown up life, start working and start to meet partners and are expected to work socially. To not function in a society where genderroles are very important about how you are being catched, interpreted and met will be extra difficult when you don't know or don't care about which biological gender you belong to. But they also almost agree about that it is it's surroundings that has the real problem, because themselves don't think it's problematic to not see the difference on gender roles or not being able to see them at all.
The conversations starts with transsexualism and many different experiences of the Swedish caresistem on that area, not at least persons that have aspergers or signs of the sickness. Among all Fredrik tells us that it an be seen at something extra, a little bit exotic, but a transsexual that even is apie, as they call themselves. In the same time it brings often the problem because some of the investigators do not think that you can be transsexual and in the same time have the diagnoses for asperger. It does that you first have to investigate for one of them, to be able to continue with the other, which makes the investigation time longer. Johnny tells that he has not always been believed because he does not use typical genderstereotype attributes, he dresses exactly as he wants and thinks it looks good.