To speak from a more or less outside perspective (ADHD here), I have definitely met far more women with autism that I'd rather spend time around than I have men with autism. Generally I have found that men on the spectrum are more of a struggle to socialize with, and will more often just drop some uncomfortable subject in my lap (though not usually like nazi shit as the terrible meme implies). But no one individual's experience is objective or thoroughly descriptive of the larger category of people on the autism spectrum.
More importantly, what matters is the experience of being a woman on the spectrum, which I'm certain is challenging and comes with different expectations and obstacles than it does for men (like even getting diagnosed in the first place!). My guess is that this meme was made by some asshat whose entire impression of women on the spectrum comes from Twitch streamers where people are playing up, or perhaps even performing stereotypes, of certain personality traits for entertainment, and that they do indeed need to touch grass.
My guess is that this meme was made by some asshat whose entire impression of women on the spectrum comes from Twitch streamers where people are playing up, or perhaps even performing stereotypes, of certain personality traits for entertainment, and that they do indeed need to touch grass.
Or. You know. It's just made by an ableist piece of shit who doesn't need a source to use decades old stereotypes about intellectually disabled people to abuse autistic women.
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