Just a couple notes. 1) great topic. so I'll address it. 2) let's address this topic without getting personal.
I think the data won't have a bias necessarily but will already show some correlation for abuse that cuts across various barriers for autistic women in general. Maybe autistic women sometimes have it better? Those in relationships at all most likely have a minimum "functioning" here. I can point to a few observations that would indicate that autistics, in general, cannot fare well when it comes to abuse but it's at most an edcuated guess. First off, being taken advantage of, naivette, is a basis for abuse and it doesn't matter the socio-economics or severity there. I've seen a real trend (no study I am aware of here sorry) of the naive being abused, rich and poor alike and the ones that are independently socio-economically well off will buy a way out eventually or have their wealth taken. I think this is true regardless of gender. Autistic men ...abused by gay males, straight wives and anyone in between can be any class and be abused. Being poor often means having more neglect or more competition than anything and those things don't tend to lead to less severe abuses.
But the link posted cites a major difference with the different "severities" and sex ratio. That in itself makes a raw study very hard to work out. You have to isolate the group you want to study in better detail. The problem with all this is the linear functioning score which is going to be very subjective in itself. To base it on an article whose findings imply that autistic phenomena are possibly the conflation of multiple sub-conditions doesn't really help either. I interpret it this way because it cannot explain the gender difference to severity and leaves that open as a statement about how this could a bunch of things working one way while high functioning (hormonal) and another way when lower functioning (genetic production of brain chemistry with genes indifferent to X or Y). so in conclusion, I think there's a rats nest of problems to work out before getting too nit picky about studies but it's a fair guess to say autistics in general are subject to more abuses.
I think the data won't have a bias necessarily but will already show some correlation for abuse that cuts across various barriers for autistic women in general. Maybe autistic women sometimes have it better? Those in relationships at all most likely have a minimum "functioning" here. I can point to a few observations that would indicate that autistics, in general, cannot fare well when it comes to abuse but it's at most an edcuated guess. First off, being taken advantage of, naivette, is a basis for abuse and it doesn't matter the socio-economics or severity there. I've seen a real trend (no study I am aware of here sorry) of the naive being abused, rich and poor alike and the ones that are independently socio-economically well off will buy a way out eventually or have their wealth taken. I think this is true regardless of gender. Autistic men ...abused by gay males, straight wives and anyone in between can be any class and be abused. Being poor often means having more neglect or more competition than anything and those things don't tend to lead to less severe abuses.
But the link posted cites a major difference with the different "severities" and sex ratio. That in itself makes a raw study very hard to work out. You have to isolate the group you want to study in better detail. The problem with all this is the linear functioning score which is going to be very subjective in itself. To base it on an article whose findings imply that autistic phenomena are possibly the conflation of multiple sub-conditions doesn't really help either. I interpret it this way because it cannot explain the gender difference to severity and leaves that open as a statement about how this could a bunch of things working one way while high functioning (hormonal) and another way when lower functioning (genetic production of brain chemistry with genes indifferent to X or Y). so in conclusion, I think there's a rats nest of problems to work out before getting too nit picky about studies but it's a fair guess to say autistics in general are subject to more abuses.
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