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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interesting. Apparently a majority of gender-transitioning people are on the autism spectrum. Is it that they've always suffered from being misunderstood and not fitting in, and they feel they need to make this change because the people who accept trans are known to be very tolerant, and that therefore their autism will be accepted as well?

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Or is it that feeling like your body and how you are perceived doesn't match with who you believe yourself to be leads to sensory issues, social challenges, and withdrawal from interaction, leading to an autism diagnosis? [/quote]

PP you replied to. I don't think so. Autism is there at birth, and develops into visible traits much earlier than sexual development, sexual interests and the stabilizing of one's own sexual identity. My young adult son is autistic and my husband, two nephews and other males in his family tree have autistic tendencies. None have ever showed any sign of wanting to be something other than a heterosexual male.

But autism manifests with a lifelong hyperfocus on one or more certain topics of interest: botany for my husband, war strategies for my son, roller coasters for one nephew, cooking for the other. They immerse themselves in their passion and it helps them fit into the world. It makes sense to me that one possible topic of interest would be adopting a specific sexual identity. And since that takes incredible fortitude in the face of public opprobrium, it makes sense that most of the people with enough socio-emotional disconnect to weather it would be people with autism.

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