Am I really a boy?  The impact of gender roles and stereotypes on me as a neurodiverse 70's child

Am I really a boy? The impact of gender roles and stereotypes on me as a neurodiverse 70's child

For years I thought I must have been wrongly assigned to the girl gender. This situation was created thanks to my logic dominated autistic brain looking at the evidence of me vs other girls and deciding that somewhere along the line, something wasn't right. My reaction to not fitting in socially with other girls was to assume that I was actually a boy. This secret view of myself persisted until I was a young teenager and had developed a slightly more nuanced view of the different sexes and understanding of gender identity. Looking back the way my autistic brain processed the world led to conclusions that made a lot of sense to me and I all that has made me ponder the complexities and sometimes fraught relationship may of us have with gender/ biological sex now.