Why are so many trans women autistic?

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[–]ClassroomPast6178 14 insightful - 2 fun14 insightful - 1 fun15 insightful - 2 fun -  (6 children)

Brain scans of trans women look like brain scans of cis women. Brain scans of trans men look like brain scans of cis men. Brain scans of nonbinary people don't quite match either

They just make shit up and keep saying it until they believe it.

[–]alladd 6 insightful - 7 fun6 insightful - 6 fun7 insightful - 7 fun -  (0 children)

Brain scans of bigender people look like two brains squished together

Brain scans of xir/xems look like alien brains

Brain scans of detrans look like a Matryoshka of different gendered brains inside one another

Brain scans of agender people return a 404 error

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

They just make shit up and keep saying it until they other people believe it.

They already believe, it's everyone else that they're desperately trying to convince.

[–]ClassroomPast6178 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I’m not so sure. Ever see videos of children in madrassas memorising the Koran? They are basically being programmed by repeating the words until they believe them, no one is born believing that shit. The same with all these online boards, yeah they’re convincing others but they’re also reinforcing their own programming in exactly the same way those children are in the madrassas.

[–]LordoftheFliesAmeri-kin 2.0. Pronouns: MegaWhite/SuperStraight/UltraPatriarchy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think that anyone who gets to the point of spouting scripture (or their equivalent thereof) as evidence of their position's validity is already past the point needing to be personally convinced though. At that point, they're out there trying to convert the ones who don't believe.

[–]OuroborosTheory 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

ah, so you DO need dysphoria, and it's objectively measurable

[–]LyingSpirit472 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

literally shaking rn. Don't you know that they did a study that had them take blood from a person who was a 100% cisgender man and saw the way it was made- had him say once "I identify as a woman" and took blood samples, and all of their chromosomes instantly changed to XX simply from saying it once? Best of all, when he said "I identify as a man again, they tried taking blood samples and he only bled glitter, as all non-binary people do- and it's been 20 years since that study, the man has never said he identified as a woman since, and he still bleeds glitter! Saying you're the other gender, even once, even in jest or lying, instantly does this to people, but the white cishetskinnydiagnosednonDreamstanpatriarchy covered that up because they hate the truth!

[–]jet199 7 insightful - 3 fun7 insightful - 2 fun8 insightful - 3 fun -  (4 children)

Because autism is a mental disability and not a superpower.

Sorry, your mother lied to you

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

How do twice-exceptional people fit your "mental disability"-theory?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/intl/blog/the-forgotten-women/202307/is-autism-a-superpower

I agree with the article that for at least 40% of autistic people there are only downsides.

Having said that, I don't know of any test that demonstrates disability.

"Classic autism" is obviously a mental disability.

In 2013, Zuckerberg made a public statement that he has a mild form of autism called Asperger's syndrome.

Since a few years the idea that "mild forms of autism" exist, has been killed by science (one could wonder whether there is anything scientific about the DSM-V, but still).

Is Zuckerberg disabled? If so, how should we measure it?

[–]jet199 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Zuckerberg isn't autistic, that's a myth.

He's highly socially manipulate and that's why Facebook is so successful.

Try another cope.

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

Sir Anthony Hopkins

[–]Adventurous_Ad6212 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

The next predator movie is going to emphasize that trans people are the next biological evolution of humans. Just like they did with autism in the last one.

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

Locked. LOL

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

My brain needs "female" levels of estrogen and testosterone in order to function properly, and that's just the way it is

I have been seeing this particular brand of pseudoscientific nonsense pop up more often, along with "I'm actually intersex". It's telling that for all the denial troons engage in, they do actually have to adjust their arguments for plausible deniability. Hiding behind unstudied science is the new one, at least until science catches up to all their bullshit.

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

More specifically, the reason why there's so many trans women who are autistic: Being trans is a cult, and trans people are the first cult to realize just how perfect autistic people are for cults:

  • They're abnormal enough there is something clearly wrong with them, and moreover, autistic people are also just intelligent enough to KNOW something is wrong with them.

  • They're trusting enough that if you tell them that you have a way to fix what is wrong with them, then they'll listen and try it in order to fix themselves.

  • More than anything else in the world, they want a sense of community. They'd sell their soul to have friends, relationships, people who care about them- and if you can promise them friends, community, a place where they belong, they'll do anything you say.

  • They're incredibly trusting. They cannot possibly fathom that you have an ulterior motive when you're telling them to do something; to them, liars are evil because lying is evil, and you're not evil, so you're clearly not lying to them when you tell them they will have these things. They'll wait forever if need be to get the things you promised them, and no matter how long it takes, they truly believe you're going to give them everything you promised them any day now.

  • They're obsessed with the things they love. That means when you've lured them in, they'll make that cult their entire personality and raison d'etre in life, they will be the most fervent believers in the cult, the first people to drink the Kool-Aid...and just as importantly, the people most adamant everyone else is a cult member, they just don't know it yet, and be willing to do whatever it takes to force people to join the cult. If they have to kill you to make you join, they happily would- and when you're dead they'll tell everyone you died a member of the cult and your dying wish was for everyone else to join too.

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

To condense that, imagine you've always had problems fitting into the ordinary social world. You find it baffling and frustrating. Suddenly, someone comes along and tells you that your whole problem is that you're trying to pretend you're the wrong gender and that transition will fix it all for you. When you transition, you instantly get a community that love-bombs you in a way you've never experienced before.

It's the perfect trap for people with autism.

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

I started reading that and I felt my neurons killing themselves.....

[–]ClassroomPast6178 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yeah, it was the golden ratio of retardation.

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

Maybe my neurons were getting convinced and going trans?

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

Sounds like a post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. They're trans because they are autistic.