When me and my brother got tested for autism, he got diagnosed with it, while I was told I just have anxiety. My family is actually pretty sure I have autism too, as well as my mom. Mom said that I didn't get diagnosed because they use the symptoms for MALE autism on everyone and didn't use FEMALE symptoms for girls. It's wrong.

That's so true. I was diagnosed with borderline, because my ex was abusing me (in doc mind it was my fault). Or rather than helping, they're just saying "stress less", or asking if you're not on your period. Please... 🙄

I don’t want any man/male to avoid seeking help or getting their annual physical because they think it’s a sign of weakness. If it’s due to affording healthcare, then we have failed as a society by protecting the interests of those who have money and in power over peoples’ health. Normalize men seeking help for mental illness, make your voices heard so that we can correct this problem. That’s not the same as drowning out the voices of others who need help. Make space to include more people, of all backgrounds, in traditionally one group dominated fields.

Yeah. It is funny how when we have physical diseases they diagnose with mental ones. But when we have mental ones they ignore them.

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They even as far as doing a experiment about ovarian cancer WITH MEN!!!!

Also, feel free to share the link to that article.

Helping victims of abuse are things we should do, regardless of their gender. What does that have to do with directing some people to look into and fix the problems that affect half the human population? Are you afraid of being inconvenienced by the loss of privilege? If you never had special privilege before, what are you losing? You’re more likely to gain an ally when women/females can contribute their share financially, empathize with you when equal opportunities are open to them, use their experiences to add more depth to different fields, and etc...

(1) Oh no, I did not feel insulted at all. I think there are people who ruin things for others. Misusing a terminology and appropriating it can diminish its importance, see mansplaining. Sometimes the other person is just a jerk who happens to be male.— It’s not always about losing privilege, sometimes it’s about someone being unwilling to be slightly inconvenienced to correct a problem, or even drowning out someone’s call for help/change with whataboutisms or by dismissing it.—Some men do get overlooked by the attention given to solving this inequality, but nothing is going to change if we just slap equality on it. There needs to be actual work to fix it. Frankly, I think we’re capable of including men in what is traditionally seen as issues that plague women.

(2) The more hands on deck, the quicker we solve this..through coordination and communication. It’s very challenging and takes a lot more work and effort to be inclusive of peoples’ experiences. I am humbled everyday. I’m glad that you came back and explained yourself and took a second look at my comment. I don’t think the special treatment enjoyed by a small population is enough to offset the current paradigm, but it is sickening when they take advantage and ruin it for everyone.

Women are just as capable and guilty of propagating and cementing misogynistic behaviors. The women who are not experiencing oppression and discrimination benefit from keeping other women from the same privileges. Some people benefit from tearing and keeping others down while they exploit the gains made by women and other marginalized groups. We hear men’s problems quite a bit more now too, and I’m grateful for that. Have you considered that the problems of men in previous generations were highlighted and addressed too, but it was called a human issue. Now, where do you find issue with my first comment?

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Um... chairs. Seating in general, in fact.

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easy peazy - tampons and other articles like that :P. Hope you keep living though.

Same. I am a biologist and female researchers told me the same bullshit about why we should only do research with males.

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It seems that there is so little information about what are the correct level of hormones. I suggested a few times to meassure my natural hormones to see what is the one that is wrong with me. And apparently that is a crazy thought. It would make sense to do it so you could decide with hormonal treatment is the best for usm

Yeah it ruins a persons life. I hate it. I am glad that you got diagnosed "early" :)

@Ingion1, with respect, I got my MD, am female, and do not practice (I'm a researchy person), and training consisted largely of two things: Textbook knowledge, and application thereof in real situations. Supervised in my day, and still today, by mostly male doctors, who were trained mostly if not entirely by male doctors, in a system that used males as the "index" for all illnesses and health indicators. That sounds fairly like a system (medical educatoin) full of sexism. And it absorbs into the female students/doctors, too. In *your* case, you were an outlier, and a GOOD doctor knows that the guidlines are just that ------ guidelines! In my case, my endometriosis showed up *after* a "typical onset age*. Seven years of he**, and then I got, "You're old enough to just wait it out till menopause." Yeah. All kinds of fun. Oh, and yes, we DO get trained to not bleieve patients. We're superior, educated, and they're hypochondriacs or addicts or attention-seekers. No joke, alas.

It is really sad that your disease took so long to be diagnosed but how this has anything to do with the topic at hand? We arent talking about new and rare diseases we are talkung about very common diseases that dont get treated because doctors dont know enough or dont believe women.

@Ingion 1, the training on how to think is, sadly, biased int hat direction in part b/c of sexism (women are always complaining over nothing, worrying over nothing. but men complaining should be taken more seriously) so right there, disbelief of one or the other is "built into" the training. It's nto explicit, as in "Your Patients are Idiots Course 404", but it's in there. Mentors teach it, professors talk about it, etc. ________ @Ozacoter, it has to do with the differences in how even women are trained to think women are (fill in blank) versus men being (fill in blank), and how in medicine that's a very bad thing for patients. On point enough? Shoo. Oh, and myd isease isn't RARE.

@Leo Domitrix i dont know why the site doesnt give me an option of reply to your comment but hopefully you might see this here.I could understand a training to establish whether someone is hypochondriac or addict or attention seeker and direct each of them accordingly as these are problems within fields of medicine themselves.But to be trained not to believe patients doesnt make sense to me.The right of patient and obligation of a doctor to diagnose for example doesnt compromise with drug seeking behaviour as there should be steps.I ve gone to E.R. myself once seeking only oxygen high flow for ch already diagnosed and was tossed out in excruciating pain as drug addict.The humiliation and sense of abandoned in pain and suffering is something still hurts to remember.Even if i was a drug addict,hypochondriac and attention seeker and not having cluster headaches.Doesnt make sense to me

It is the sad thruth. Its not that they teach doctors to not believe women, sexism is much more subtle. But the majority of doctors still believe that women have a low pain tolerance (which is not true) and think that their pain is due to them being "hysterical". To give you two examples. I first went to the doctor when I was 19 because my periods were so painful that I used to faint. My doctor did not even examined me, he told me "you just need to relax". After ten years to fight I got my diagnosis (despite having textbook symptoms). My new GP despite of the diagnosis told me that she wouldnt give me painkillers "because a paracetamol should be enough" (endometriosis can be as painful as birth sometimes imagine what a paracetanol can do to me...). My FIL went to the same doctor for a moderate hip pain (he could walk perfectly while when I am in real pain cant). She didnt argue and gave him painkillers so strong that he needed to stay at home three days because he couldnt function with them. This are only two examples our of eleven years of fighting for ny disease and 13 doctors...

So you know NOTHING. Endo is non-curable and DEADLY desease too. Just imagine endometriosis tumor in your brain or lung. And it can just go BOOM any time - like a ticking time bomb. I have one in my long - it basically makes me drown in blood when I menstruate.