So this is going to make some people mad, but this is a proven phenomenon. This also happens in men/AFAB that aren’t diagnosed early… more prominent with people that have very significant or close mother figures or even single mothers, but still noticeable otherwise. It’s kind of like ABA therapy all of the time in a way
This also goes for non-autism traits. When AMAB autistics are diagnosed young, for some reason the parents take that as an excuse to just let them do whatever the hell they want with no consequence. For example, I have a twenty-something autistic cousin who frequently steals from people’s houses and nobody does anything about it because “he doesn’t know any better”. Bitch, I got a 224 on the RAADS-R and even I know not to sneakily nab things from the houses of family members I’m visiting.
Cis men at least. I’m a trans man who was diagnosed as kid, but I was diagnosed and grew up as a girl (didn’t accept I was trans until my late teens and didn’t come out until my early 20s) and I definitely notice a difference between my coping skills and that of my cis male autistic peers.
My bad, I was trying to be inclusive because I have colleagues over the spectrum of both neurodivergence snd gender Some of my colleagues are ND trans women and I have a friend that is diagnosed ASD that has been openly a trans man/boy since fairly young and essentially raised a boy… despite being AFAB. I didn’t know how else to articulate it to include people I actually know I’ll be more aware in the future, I can see why this came off the way it did. I’m sorry for any discomfort or hurt :(