What's the connection between being trans and having other mental disorders?

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[–]LyingSpirit472 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

The gender cult is the first to realize that autistic people are tutorial mode for cult membership.

  • They're so desperate for a sense of belonging and friendships so you can literally make them do anything you want as long as you pretend you'll be their friend. (In addition, because they're desperate, in all likeliness they have no one waiting for them to tell them otherwise, and they're more likely to say "you made it clear you wouldn't piss on me if I was on fire. These people care about me. Why should I turn my back on them for you? Truth be told, you should shake my hand- now I gave you a reason to hate me!"

  • They're incredibly trusting, meaning they have the two-pronged attack of "they'll never once consider that you have an ulterior motive with what you're trying to get them to do" and "you don't actually have to come through with what you promise them; they trust you'll give it to them so much and cannot possibly fathom you're lying to them that they'll wait forever if need be".

  • They're incredibly obsessive. They'll be the most fervent believers in the cult, the ones who would literally take a bullet for the cult, and the ones who'd give a bullet if it came down to it to get a tougher nut to crack than they were to join.

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

I'm just restating what you've said, but if you take someone who doesn't fit into the neurotypical social fabric and introduce them to a community where they explain all your sense of being out of place in the world via gender identity and then love-bomb you for joining them, it's basically the perfect trap for autistic people. And, as you say, there's the whole system of gender ideology into which to pour all your obsessive impulses.

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

Exactly- though even though we both agree here, I will say it's kind of weird that religion is lowering further and further, and autistic people aren't going into religion even though it traditionally did the same thing [explain why your sense of being out of place is due to their God's belief, love-bomb you until you join them, give them a system to pour their obsessive impulses into].

Maybe it's how religions treated people both post love-bomb [most only love you until you're a member and then forget about you] and how they feel about autistic people [feeling they're dullards who aren't worth helping at best, like they're wicked and need to be purged at worst], but it's a curious addition to this connection.

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

This hits the truth. There's a blog of someone writing about this that someone posted a while back about how they tend to be categorical thinkers, which I found insightful. Very useful as true believers of any kind.