It's hard to define an incel. To me an incel is someone who given their circumstances is unable to obtain sex without direct payment. If you're a 3 could you move to SEA and not even incel? Sure. You could also be a 5 in LA and move to rural Arkansas and get something too maybe, but you can't be sure of that and just move to Arkansas bro. Right. And surely someone is about to chime in on how competitive rural Arkansas is
Can you be a 6 or 7 and diagnosably on the spectrum and just unable to form relationships with mildly interested girls? I would say yes because that person's reality is still that they can't get sex despite trying. Their gap to not being incel is much narrower and not insurmountable.
Can you be an 8+ and incel? I would say no but only because at that point I believe the signals and opportunities from women have to actively be being ignored. I can believe a 6.5 is missing a girl looking at him from across the hall but I can't believe an 8.5 actively getting cornered by a woman who spits him alone.
Can a 6/7 be ignoring signals from women they don't like because they don't like them? Yes, and I would say they're not incel because they're choosing not to act.
Can a 6/7 not get sex? A 6/7 has to actively pursue women to get women. They're forced to negotiate for weeks, months, years on a non sexual basis to indicate to women that they have what that woman wants, and to foster a level of comfort. They need that comfort that they're not going to get raped or murdered if they don't have sex last second. And sex is to purchase relationship. They don't need that comfort with Chad because sex is the point with Chad, they fully intend to have sex with him so their lizard brain knows there's no threat to sexual contact with him
Short aside, a lot of people here using the 1-10 rating to refer to faces which is retarded.
1-5s get gfs and wives too because the environmental conditions were right. But if they were single tomorrow they'd be functionally incel.
It's kind of like a cancer diagnosis.
8-10 have a five year change of no sex at 0%.
A 7 is at a 1% - you need a special set of circumstances to not have sex and it's more like
A 6 is like 25% - most normie 6s will manage to get sex through normiemaxxing. They have to fully degrade themselves to have sex with a mid looking woman who doesn't really give herself to him because she doesn't really like him. 25% are isolated, autists, have social circumstances nuking their chances.
A 5 is like 50% and just a 6 but tries harder for less
3-4 is like 80% - most won't manage but 20% will find the right ugly girl who is maximally available when they meet them. The woman wants marriage now
2 is like a 99% - only 1% will get lucky in that 5 year span. The woman wants marriage now
1 is like 99.999% - an equally hideous girl that has a marriage fetish
But you, yes you incel reading this, could run into Land Whaleica tomorrow who will let you hump her while she lays there doing nothing in pursuit of wedding photos.