...yet most autistic people I'm exposed to are very bluepilled and politically correct. Why do you think you're different?
- selection bias - maybe you are interacting with them in a specific setting that selects for more functional autistic people, i.e. IRL workplace (many autistics dont even have jobs, so the ones that have represent a subset and are probably healthier and better looking)
- many autistic people have co-morbid physical health issues, a fact which is massively understated and avoided due to political correctness among other things
- autism has become a fad-diagnosis in the last 15 years. Just 20 years ago it was considered a rare condition and university students were told their chances of encountering an autistic person in practice were slim. Since then, the whole field of mental illness has become highly polarized and political (again, this is like the 3rd time since the first instances in the 1800s - everyone back then had "hysteria" cuz it was fashionable, even teddy roosevelt JFL, and he was like 200kg gigachad)
This means that a lot of the online autists you encounter are basically normies picked up by a trend of over diagnosing this disorder
Further corroborating this - there is research that a big chunk of autists diagnosed in childhood no longer meet the diagnostic threshold for a diagnosis by the time they reach adulthood. That means, there is a huge amount of adult autists out there, who still have the diagnosis, but technically dont have autism. Of course these people may then go about, flaunting autism as their identity, spouting bluepill nonsense.
- the people that end up here on .is are probably closer to the actual autists, which suffer from long term co-morbid health issues, which of course destroys their looks too, as looks = health in many instances.
- another thing I can imagine is that a lot of autistic people take normie advice very serious, when thats not supposed to be the case. So if a normie says something like "just approach bro" to an autist, they just do it over over. I have talked to people on here that have cold approached 200+ women without success. However, what normies mean when they give platitudes is nothing, they are just non-literal platitudes.
As a result, many people here have literally tried everything people told them by the book, for years, without success.
For better looking autists, i.e. white with normie looks, they may end up in relationship and then end up dominating online discussion, spreading bluepilled lies - autists are very profilic online posters due to obsessive nature, they can easily dominate discourse on a platform. Most internet users never post, just lurk. Only 10% even participate at a given time, just look at this forum, 20000 users and avg 200 users online.
Final reason I can imagine:
Autistic people do not care about social norms as much. So they are not afraid of being edgy or joining a "radical" forum, as an NT person would.
One example from reddit I can give: The contrast between r/autism and r/aspergers.
As I mentioned, autism has become a highly political topic, as has all of mental illness and associated identity politics. The subreddit r/autism is extremely left leaning, they thought police everyone, their visual design is fucking cringe and childish, tons of women, trannies etc there.
r/aspergers is full of true autists with health issues among other things. The reason is that the more political autism groups have abandoned the term "aspergers" because they associate the word with the third reich XDDDDDDDD
because hans asperger, the guy who asperger syndrome was named after, was an austrian scientist who worked with the nazis during ww2.
Of course this is ridiculous, but it created a selection bias, where only autists that dont give a fuck about this shit end up on r/aspergers, because they dont care about the history of the word asperger. Thats why you tend to see more blackpilled posts on r/asperger than on r/autism.
A similar effect could be happening on this forum.