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Why do so many men fetishize autistic women?
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Anonymous 7w

Cuz interests and social ineptness is seen as childish. Since they’re pedophiles

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Anonymous 7w

Same reason anything else gets fetishized. It’s different from them and because they find that difference attractive in one context they need to dehumanize the person with the difference so that it’s palatable and “sexy”. Oh and also autistic women are seen as more manipulatable.

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Anonymous 7w

We’re typically worse at noticing red flags and warning signs, we’re also often more trusting.

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Anonymous 7w

Most times it’s a “I want as close as I can get to a child” or “manic pixie dream girl” thing

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Anonymous 7w

what won’t they fetishize 🫩

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Anonymous 7w

Because most men want the closest thing they can legally date/have sex with to a little girl, and they see us as “innocent” and “impressionable”. They basically want someone easy to manipulate and they think that’ll automatically mean autistic girls.

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Anonymous 6w

probably bc they think we're easier to abuse, which i guess a lot of us are

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Anonymous 6w

I’m just glad my last bf was the first one to notice possible autism and became protective and even flat out said “I’m going act towards you in ways that helped my autistic brother”. We still had sex but he never pushed, and due to a past abusive relationship I have a higher drive (or at least I do when I have a relationship, not really when I’m single I don’t understand that honestly). I miss him everyday, he also helped me get into therapy :(

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Anonymous 7w

I just wanna have sex

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 7w

Jokes on them. I’m just kind of mean & very blunt.

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 7w

Yes that, and the power dynamic goes with that too. They perceive people with our condition as weaker/less aware and more easy to overpower.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 7w

Until we’ve been crossed by the wrong people. Then the same red flags we didn’t see or told ourselves to ignore the first time light up like neon in the dark. Pattern recognition.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 7w

Yeah I just like don’t interact with men anymore? Like there’s better solutions but there’s also worse ones. Pattern recognition 👍

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 7w

True. I’ve just overall always been pretty lucky in having pretty good experiences with them. A couple bad ones didn’t sour me on the whole lot.

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Anonymous replying to -> #3 7w

You’re actually gross

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