Being neuroatypical happens in roughly even amounts between men and women. However, while a man - unless he is wealthy, whereupon he is merely “eccentric” - wi

Being neuroatypical happens in roughly even amounts between men and women. However, while a man - unless he is wealthy, whereupon he is merely “eccentric” - will be nailed to the wall for his differences and beaten up on a constant basis for not conforming (and until the 80s, were literally beaten black and blue for failing to conform), women will mostly be forgiven by society for the exact same peculiarities. They are “acceptably eccentric” regardless of wealth or social status, whereas men could only be “acceptably eccentric” if they were exceedingly wealthy such that they didn’t even have to hold down a job at any point in their lives. Things have gotten a lot better for men in the last few decades, and especially in the last decade with it’s open acceptance of neurodivergence, but I was born just late enough to escape the era where I would be coming home from school with serious physical injuries - meted out by teachers seeking to violently force my conformity - on pretty much a daily basis. Those tools were taken away from teachers in the 70s (in Canada) as a part of removing potential sources of abuse from the school system.