Too often I read about how ‘vulnerable’ autistic people are ‘targeted’ by the trans community, and are therefore forced into being trans against their will. Autistic people may be many things, but being vulnerable to such nefarious schemes (if such schemes even exist, which I’m certain they don’t) is not one of them. Too many of us have spent hour after hour analysing our own behaviour, going over things in minute detail so as to be completely sure, to determine that we are, in fact, autistic – a conclusion that seems to almost always be borne out by official diagnosis. It stands to reason,
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