Because I had read a lot about menopause long before perimenopause in my 40's, I expected my experience to be much more traumatic than it turned out to be. But then, I'd never really had many problems with the bad cramps and heavy bleeding that so many of my contemporaries had (including my mother and two sisters and several cousins).
However, I did feel noticeable changes in my ability to memorize -- as an amateur actor, having a good memory was important. As an English instructor, I sometimes had gaps in my attention while I was teaching that bothered me, too.
It would be interesting to know what experience other post-menopausal autistic women had while going through "the change". In many ways, for me it was liberating because I didn't feel the loss of fertility and the lessening of estrogen because I suspect (with no proof, only my own feeling) that I had never produced as much estrogen as many girls and women I knew.
Of course, it may have been autism more than low estrogen that made me often feel that I had little in common with more feminine women.
I feel for what you experienced, Alejandra, because I have observed other women who felt the changes so brutally. I wish you health and strength as you go forward into the next stage of womanhood!
Because I had read a lot about menopause long before perimenopause in my 40's, I expected my experience to be much more traumatic than it turned out to be. But then, I'd never really had many problems with the bad cramps and heavy bleeding that so many of my contemporaries had (including my mother and two sisters and several cousins).
However, I did feel noticeable changes in my ability to memorize -- as an amateur actor, having a good memory was important. As an English instructor, I sometimes had gaps in my attention while I was teaching that bothered me, too.
It would be interesting to know what experience other post-menopausal autistic women had while going through "the change". In many ways, for me it was liberating because I didn't feel the loss of fertility and the lessening of estrogen because I suspect (with no proof, only my own feeling) that I had never produced as much estrogen as many girls and women I knew.
Of course, it may have been autism more than low estrogen that made me often feel that I had little in common with more feminine women.
I feel for what you experienced, Alejandra, because I have observed other women who felt the changes so brutally. I wish you health and strength as you go forward into the next stage of womanhood!