Thats because people dont realize what high functioning autism is. It has been lumped together with several disorders to obfuscate what people have. Disorders like Aspergers and the 'media' autism where you can't interact with the world aren't part of a spectrum, but it makes it easier to have a treatment if you can lump them in, no?
The 'high-functioning' autistic individual is delayed in several fronts of cognitive processing. When you speak to a 16 year old, they process as a 12 year old at best and a 6 year old at worst. 6 to 12 is when you are normally experimenting with gender, e.g. kids dress up as the opposite sex or take the first grade school boy/girlfriend. They get feedback from their peers and they normalize to a status somewhere along the 'normal' wavelength.
Now that same 16 year old didnt do any of that. They have no concept of what it means to be a gender and their peers have all moved on. This wasn't unknown, it was called 'late blooming' in the olden times. One or two in a normal peer setting get straightened out eventually.
But now, they either latch onto others in their same boat where they encourage but dont normalize the gender play, or they get co-opted by broken adults with broken ideals.
In the previous eras, this woulf work itself out as they get experience. 26...30 years old, somewhere in there.
Now....it becomes tragedy. The broken ideals of the broken adults lead so many in the the trans community into suicide. They were promised that the surgical act was pinnacle, that they would finally 'feel' like what they were told everyone else 'feels'. And then they wake up feeling less like anything, more alien than ever.
Thats because people dont realize what high functioning autism is. It has been lumped together with several disorders to obfuscate what people have. Disorders like Aspergers and the 'media' autism where you can't interact with the world aren't part of a spectrum, but it makes it easier to have a treatment if you can lump them in, no?
The 'high-functioning' autistic individual is delayed in several fronts of cognitive processing. When you speak to a 16 year old, they process as a 12 year old at best and a 6 year old at worst. 6 to 12 is when you are normally experimenting with gender, e.g. kids dress up as the opposite sex or take the first grade school boy/girlfriend. They get feedback from their peers and they normalize to a status somewhere along the 'normal' wavelength.
Now that same 16 year old didnt do any of that. They have no concept of what it means to be a gender and their peers have all moved on. This wasn't unknown, it was called 'late blooming' in the olden times. One or two in a normal peer setting get straightened out eventually.
But now, they either latch onto others in their same boat where they encourage but dont normalize the gender play, or they get co-opted by broken adults with broken ideals.
In the previous eras, this woulf work itself out as they get experience. 26...30 years old, somewhere in there.
Now....it becomes tragedy. The broken ideals of the broken adults lead so many in the the trans community into suicide. They were promised that the surgical act was pinnacle, that they would finally 'feel' like what they were told everyone else 'feels'. And then they wake up feeling less like anything, more alien than ever.
Could not agree with you more, Well said.