Samaritan:
Actually the connection is pretty obvious, many people in the autism spectrum are into big girls, too many that it could be just a coincidence.
Interesting theory and i’m glad you raised it for the community to discuss, but again, my lived experience witnessing and interacting with many people seems different. Many people on the A. spectrum into big girls? Absolutely yes… true. Many people
not on the A. spectrum into big girls? Yes. I have no comparative statistics, but subjectively amongst people i’ve known or known enough about, on or off the spectrum seems mostly in balance, or if anything
slightly biased towards A. spectrum individuals.
This discussion and that Simon Baron-Cohen study from 2002 got me thinking about the many people (mostly identifying as men) who’ve come here and other places in the community over the years seeking an algorithm for “how to get with a fat woman”. For at least some of those individuals, no matter how many times and different ways folks would try to be helpful with things like “get to know them as a person”, “everyone’s different”, etc., those asking the original question(s) often were not satisfied. The extreme male brain/autism theory is one possible explanation for the disconnect between those asking and those answering.