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Yes, I welcome advice and would be happy to reflect on it.

• SamoyedFurFluff 5y ago
  I found myself in a similar boat until I started doing something that had a high community dependency that is also less extremely gendered. So, for example, biking and hiking are not gendered activities and a variety of humans do them. Foodie things, business things, specific crafts will also do this. Consistently appearing in them helps a lot. This is dependent on how “evident” your autism is though. There is a good amount of therapy that can be done to mitigate some of it, but there are also groups (fandoms for example) that are both less obviously gendered and also more open to awkwardness (like writing fantasy novels). Once you’re in an activity for the fun of the activity, friendships and the like also tend to form organically, like sewing seeds in a field and then allowing rain to trigger sprouting.