Largest study to date confirms overlap between autism and gender diversity

I had a theory about this about 5 years ago as I started noticing that there was a correlation with my friends who had autism. I got a lot of heat for it though when I mentioned it, even as someone who is lgbt myself.

I’m probably autistic. That is, pretty noticeably hitting all of the checkboxes on the typical aspie profile but not quite to an extent that anybody who isn’t explicitly looking for such things wouldn’t write off as being eclectic; dare I say, not even “weird”.

I’m not deep into either community but I always feel we get really lost on this. We call autism a spectrum, but then seem to act like it’s a single dimension spectrum and that people who are “normal” aren’t even “on the spectrum”.

I would bet if we really pressed on dimensionalizing the spectrum we would find the overlap on this issue is on a pretty specific part. And perhaps are the same thing??

I have a suspicion about this, which makes me want a study to test if the strength of this effect is inversely related to acceptance of gender diversity in the social milieu in which individuals reside.

(2020)