Meta study: ASD (autism) cases in gender dysphoric people ranges from 1.2%-68% (low accuracy). ASD diagnosis of gender dysphoric people is 11x higher than in the general population. (higher accuracy but severity of cases vary).

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Autism Spectrum Disorder and Gender Dysphoria/Incongruence. A systematic Literature Review and Meta-Analysis

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-022-05517-y

From the studies we reviewed it was estimated that the positive rates for ASD caseness in GD/GI people range from 1.2 to 68% ... cutoff points used ... across different studies does not allow us to make accurate interpretations of these findings. In contrast, the evidence about the rates of autistic GD/GI people was less obscure and showed an increased prevalence of ASD diagnoses in this population. Likewise, the results of the meta-analysis we conducted indicated that ASD frequently occurs in GD/GI individuals. Specifically, the prevalence of ASD diagnoses in this population was 11 times higher than the ASD prevalence estimate of approximately 1% in the general population. We should note, however, that the prediction intervals of the prevalence estimate were very wide, indicating that not all GD/GI people are affected by ASD to the same degree.

Corresponding reddit thread seems to have about 50% "comment removed".

https://old.reddit.com/r/science/comments/yl8o9e/children_with_gender_dysphoria_are_400_more/

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[–]brimshaeBased Woodchipper Merchant 9 insightful - 1 fun9 insightful - 0 fun10 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Groomers target autists. This is known.

[–]FlyingKangaroo 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wish austists who speak out about it wouldn’t be silenced and this process could be widely known...

[–]Musky༼⁠ ⁠つ⁠ ⁠◕⁠‿⁠◕⁠ ⁠༽⁠つ 🐈 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (0 children)

Autistic and trans (7 years in, committed to the lifestyle, it says "transsexualism" on my insurance docs): there's nothing to lose socially by transitioning if you don't really enjoy the company of anyone you know. Link

Hahahaha, might as well, right? Get those tranny perks if you didn't like anyone anyways. And he's committed to the lifestyle, sounds like a fandom or cult. He could have said he was committed to being a brony, or a mormon.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

1% to 68% is such a wide margin it's basically useless I think.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Yeah, it’s surprising that they got published with that range. Then again, looking at the JIF for that journal, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, it’s lower than 5, I’m pretty sure they’d publish something finger painted in poo.

[–]Alienhunter糞大名 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Studies indicate that people who fingerpaint are somewhere between 0 and 100 percent more likely than the general population to engage in foreplay.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It's a meta study so it isn't their data. It means they compiled a bunch of data from various sources so not their fault.

[–]jet199 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Apparently fuctional autists often partake in masking which adopting a new persona can help with.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 3 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 3 fun -  (7 children)

The speg to incel to tyranny pipeline will one day be celebrated like the so-called underground railroad is now.

[–]LyingSpirit472 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Well, as long as you realize by saying that we need to mock "spegs" for being such, leading them to break bad and become incels and thus go to tyranny, your very comment means you are literally part of the problem, then sure.

[–]FlyingKangaroo 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Very wise words. Grooming is one thing but another is mocking. Hypernormies are no better from troons. Let’s just respect each other and fight degeneracy.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I believe there is an element of choice to autism. I am criticizing behavior.

[–]LyingSpirit472 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Of course. And that's the big issue that leads to autistic people being fish in a barrel for cultists/hate groups of all types.

Genderwoo is just the most obvious example, because they're the first to truly realize how EASY it is to lure autistic people into a cult: Just befriend them, be there for them, and trust that the person on the spectrum is so lonely, such a social misfit, and so desperate for a place to belong in this world that they'll do literally anything you say if you promise them that...and they obsess over anything they have to become the people who'll be the most militant believers there are.

[–]Newzok 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Holy shit you made me realise that these are the types of people who join cults in the first place. And the categorical structure of behaviour in a lot of them might well appeal to that type of mind.

[–]LyingSpirit472 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes, and it's also the change for the gender cult instead of old ones. Traditional cults or even hate groups focused on people who are new in town or just got out of a long-term relationship/got out of losing family members because even they didn't want anything to do with autistic people. The gender cult's the first ones who saw autistics are this easy to lure in.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Dylan Mulvaney Boulevard incoming!

[–]jacques1102 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Why are there so many comments removed?

[–]Q-Continuum-kin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Generally it's understood that there are power mods who sift through hundreds of subreddits and will remove any comments which are even slightly questioning of trans ideology. That particular subreddit is also more likely to remove off topic comments.