behindyourightnow
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I think you are looking in the wrong direction here because the loudest and most blatant narcissism in the trans movement comes from the AGPs who aren't autistic (that is, there are AGPs who are also autistic, but they are not leading the pack and setting the trends and getting all the attention) and the autists who get drawn in are just aping that behavior because it's acceptable and they never get pushback. That is not to say that non-AGP online trans spaces don't encourage narc behaviour as well, but that is just what happens in social groups with no accountability, whether they are full of autistic people or not.i do wonder how that dovetails in with the troon and autism comorbidity. it's a bit of a tough one because the autism-hypoempathy-hyperempathy question is already pretty tangled: there's autismos who have, for example, an advanced empathy for animals and a justice sensitivity that spurs on passion and activity for animal rights, but in the same sentence can't apply basic cognitive empathy to something beyond their own experiences because People Is Hard.
i wonder if what we've got here is some hilarious (if not horrifying) homunculus of the autistic justice sensitivity and the autistic lack of cognitive empathy. hence the insistence and passion that they are licherally the most gorillion trans-suicided by things like the word "breastfeed" and not being allowed into shelters to wave their girldicks around at women who've been raped, and yet all the "cis faggots should die of aids faggot faggot FAGGOT" from the gaydens and "TERFS (=any cis woman with a boundary, nowadays) should be raped with an axe and dissolved in acid alive" from the tiffanies.
perhaps, and quite ironically, it's in fact their total inability to conceptualize the actual being of the other sex they claim to inhabit with any sort of applied empathy that leads to that behavior.
and then there's also the autism-narcissism connection, which would explain the justice sensitivity for things that concern meeeee but complete lack of interest in any activism that doesn't (complete lack of interest in abortion rights, BLM in profile while just stealing their slogan for trans lives matter, etc etc.)
autism's always been a hard read to put a pin in because the symptoms can be downright diametrically opposed from person to person and yet still be fundamentally autism, but why troons would never look into the insane overrepresentation of autists amongst the transcult and go "hmmmm maybe alienation from social norms might have more to do with this than alienation from gender" is probably because they're so autistic lmao.
. Very eloquently put, too. I will be stealing this phrase.