>>16770610
The last numbers I've seen from a source with some actual research data behind it was 0.8% of the general population has some form of real (not trend driven) gender identity dysfunction. For those who have been professionally diagnosed with autism, the rate is about 3x that of the general population, around 2.4%.
The thing is that lots of people are wearing self diagnosed autism as a fashion accessory and people who are MtF trans tend to be extreme attention seekers. Mix them together and you get what appears to be a strong bidirectional correlation between autism and gender dysphoria.
Regardless of the actual data, most people go with their gut based on what they see, which in the current environment is a bunch of men screaming that they're autistic women. Just like data on school shooting prevalence won't dissuade them from believing the school system is a killing field, they also can't be dissuaded from their belief that autism and gender dysphoria are usually comorbidities.

>>512372287
'Fear of being perceived' is one of the diagnostic criteria for autism. Intentionally attention whoring is contraindicated for autism. That doesn't mean autistic people don't do things that call attention to themselves but rather that they don't do it deliberately. An autism reveal cake is impossible to be anything but deliberate.

>>508452816
When self diagnosis first started taking off on tiktok, my sister, who is also autistic (so is our dad), loved it.
>Finally, the challenges of being autistic and a woman is getting noticed.
Didn't take her long to became angry once she realized how many of them were doing it for attention seeking and were the types of girls who made her life really shitty when she was younger and didn't yet know how to mask very well.
The attention seeker in this thread aside, there is some degree of blow back against autism acceptance due to the sudden flood of tiktok girls using it as a form of dress up. Eventually they'll get bored and move on to something else as it will lose its power to generate views and clicks. Until then, there's not much one can do other than ignore the attention seekers and those who can't differentiate them from those who actually have autism.