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(For how i crafted these quotes, see What i changed in survey-takers' responses and What i didn't change.)
"I'm neurodivergent, which means I likely interpret things differently than neurotypical people do. This means my relationship to my gender and sexuality is different than others' interpretations. Being different is not a bad thing though! Many neurodivergent people are queer and/or trans."
"As an autistic person, I would like to tell others that there are tons of others like me that have queer identities."
"I'm autistic! There's a pretty large amount of intersectionality between those two groups so I find acceptance in most parts of both."
"I am autistic and trans. Autistics are more likely to be gender expansive than neurotypicals."
"My autism is inseparable from who I am as a person, and therefore inseparable from my transness and gender identity. My autism effects how I think, feel, and perceive social constructs such as gender- it also effects my relationship with identity and labels, and so my being autistic and my being trans intertwine and are both intrinsic parts of myself and identity."
"I think that being autistic greatly influences my queer identity. I don't think I can separate the two of them from each other."
"My autism and my transness are inherently connected due to gender being a social construct that I don't fully understand I have thus put my own meaning to things in order to better operate in a world that holds social constructs to such an extreme."
"My neurodivergence plays a lot into my queerness and deserves acknowledgement and respect too."
"my gender identity and sexuality don't cancel out being autistic. i'm not confused, i'm genderqueer and asexual, my identities are deeply intertwined."
"My queerness and my autism are intertwined. They greatly affect each other. They cannot be separated. And this is still valid!"
"I'd say that my autism has nothing to do with me being non-binary and asexual."
