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I am not too sure about autism being directly a further male brain than the normative population. As a counter, the number of Male-to-Female transgender people
by drilldrive 8y ago
I am not too sure about autism being directly a further male brain than the normative population. As a counter, the number of Male-to-Female transgender people in the speedrunning community is staggeringly high, and should be given some thought.
- bellerose 8y agoEscapism might just be the case. I know from my own experience gaming was just a way to focus on something else besides a cruel reality. Eventually moved to programming and realized later what was happening. I'm sure if life had been different, I would have done a different career and one that's more social with the focus in a social aspect.
- drilldrive 8y agoEscapism is certainly an aspect of autism. My personal theory is that autism is akin to really dense hair, in that your mind is less flexible, and thus themes of constancy arise early in development. This analogy implies both that an autist would be highly structured in thought, which is Simon Baron Cohen's pioneering idea, and would be very low in prowess of executive function, as the mind would be too inflexible to a change in perspective.
- bellerose 8y agoI'm surprised you associate it with autism and not gender dysphoria.