other risk factors for being on the autism spectrum:

* people expect you to know things you couldn't possibly know.
* you're crap at remembering people's names and faces.
* people think you're funny, but you suck at jokes.
* the more helpful and thoughtful you are, the more people get mad at you.
* people think you're mad when you aren't.
* "Look at me when I'm talking to you."
* people are basically random.
* you don't know what you look like.
* subtitles.
* the music is too damn loud.

autism psa:

us autists tend to naturally cluster together socially, when given the chance. we're just more comfortable for each other to be around, as best I can tell. my online social circle is *very* autism spectrum, for example.

which is to say, if you're reading this, you're probably at least adjacent to a cluster of autistic (and trans, plural, depressed, ADHD…) folks.

that's a data point that YOU might be one or several of those things.