@PaladinQuinn
There was a person on there saying that although she contentedly presented as a woman, the voice in her head was male. I don't think she was really aware of the possibilities of being Transgender or NB.

I've learnt a lot about gender myself over the last couple of years on the Fediverse.

@aredridel go mad

@PaladinQuinn

Gender is a social learning process.

There's a lot of hints that autism often brings a different schema for social learning—much more fact-based, and very direct.

Gender, looked at as facts and direct experience is _wack_. That provides the dysphoria and "this system is broken, how fix?"

@PaladinQuinn

Then add that there's a sex assignment skew among autistic folks. Mostly AMAB. This could be a detection problem, but also hints that there's something perhaps linked to that.

And then there's https://slatestarcodex.com/2018/12/11/diametrical-model-of-autism-and-schizophrenia/

Which I have my skeptic hat firmly on about, but I find a fascinating theory.

@aredridel @PaladinQuinn thank you for putting to words my exact reasoning when I started questioning my gender

@backwardsflow @aredridel big relate although for me Autism kinda held me back knowing if ya know what I mean.

@PaladinQuinn @backwardsflow Oh geez yes. Despite providing a nice path to figuring it out sometimes, it completely screws the external part of the process of gendering.

@PaladinQuinn And then on top of it, if one is hypersensitive to stimulus, Not being expected to be a man and 'tough it out' through a lot might well be a thing.

And as far as I know, I _think_ the stats on autism and trans folks mostly bear toward being trans women, and fewer men. But of course, the effect of hormones and social interaction are pretty wildly varied, so I'd expect that not to be a simple determiner.

@aredridel interesting so it's more Trans Women, hmmm --- @shoutcacophony were you aware of that?