@PaladinQuinn i’m also autistic & trans !! it’s a really interesting correlation

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I was writing about this yesterday on an autism forum. It seems to me that AS people often don't relate to the traditional m/f binary category we're assigned - we don't fully understand or see the point of social rules like that.

@PaladinQuinn in psychology i apologise in advance if i offend anyone unintentionally. Im not on the autism spectrum and i havent studied it at all so my understanding is just from what i hear from partners on the spectrum and a tangential understanding from my studies)
there are a few theories about the manner in which gender identity forms. A few of these are based around social cues and the like which are basically either observed behaviours someone tries to emulate or behaviours they are told or encouraged to adhere to.
I dont have a really good understanding of autism but if im right in my basic idea that it has an impact on how someone is able to interpret understand or internalise social cues and the like, it would imply that they are more likely to form an identity based on their own internal sense of self.
Based on this it isnt so much that autistic people are more likely to be trans but that they are more likely to question the social constructs around gender identity and expression and therefore realise that they are trans. (While people who dont question may be trans but not realise it because they accept their assigned gender)
(I also have some theories about how gender identity forms but its a bit longwinded to shove into another post)

@PaladinQuinn I mean, I've got theories but they're maybe even still wild-ass theories.

@PaladinQuinn yeah, however there are plenty of research published in psychology journals but they tend ho focus of trans masc autistics, the annoying hypermale brain pseudoscience bs still tends to polute the scene when it comes to research surounding autism.

@PaladinQuinn ... huh. I'm an a-spec enby with like a billion trans-spec a-spec friends and I kinda... Never thought about a correlation before?

@PaladinQuinn my theory is that we're pretty independent thinkers? like we just know ourselves and what we want/like/are comfortable with and it's essentially impossible to 'program' us lol the gender binary is a false system and we know it