>Gideon tells me that in his experience there are many autistic traits that don’t fit at all with our cultural conception of masculinity. Hypersensitivity to se

>Gideon tells me that in his experience there are many autistic traits that don’t fit at all with our cultural conception of masculinity. Hypersensitivity to sensory stimulation is one of them, as is the tendency for those with autism to develop anxiety and depression—conditions that in the general population are higher in women than in men—the predilection of autistic people to prefer consistency and predictability also contrasts with the masculine trait of risk-taking. This is unsurprising, considering autistic males tend to display slightly feminized neurological structure and behavioral traits compared to control males. http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/201/2/116.full http://bjp.rcpsych.org/content/201/2/116.full http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567(14)00725-4/pdf http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567(14)00725-4/pdf Likely relatedly, the incidence of gender coherence issues (up to full gender dysphoria) are over 7 times more prevalent in the autistic community than the general population. https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/the-link-between-autism-and-trans-identity/507509/ https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/11/the-link-...