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Originally Posted by Holiver_and_Ivy
Neuro-atypicality is something I've definitely heard of as being common in trans-identified people, as is those who've suffered some form of child abuse.
It could be that (for want of better phrasing) the autistic view of femininity and masculinity is seen as more literal, and someone who acts in a way which is contrary to gender norms "must be" trans?
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But then (especially with the widening of the concept of autism that’s been communicated to the lay-public) a lot of people with other disorders that might cause deficits in things like non-verbal communication (complex p.t.s.d., dysthymic depression that goes untreated for a long time) are often mislabelled as autistic by people who don’t understand them and in those cases there’s often a certain asexuality resulting from it which is less a reflection of them than it is the loss of energy and interest in a wide variety of things so it’s hard to tell how accurate the data about trans. ideas being somewhat higher in the autistic community. There’s definitely something going on in-between all that but what’s truly autism/being a quirky, androgynous weirdo with Asperger’s and what’s complex p.t.s.d. with bad social anxiety and lack of sexual assertion misinterpreted as asexual ambivalence isn’t always easy to tell.