>>380
hard to say. probably due to lots of reasons. My friend who goes to university tells me that lots of normans (particularly women) self-identify as autistic, so maybe it's simply a way of feeling special

>>380
In my experience among those kinds of people there's a sizeable group who are looking for external validation because of their insecurities and lack of confidence in themselves and labeling themselves as autistic is a way of avoiding the pain of failing to fit in, not getting the validation they want, by claiming that they don't know how to act socially because they're "autistic". This goes for avoiding conflict too, taking responsibility, etc. Wanting to avoid the vulnerability of being real and honest they fake autism which, if they actually had it, would make it hard for them NOT to be painfully honest and real despite the fact that that often leads to not fitting in, but if they were an autist they wouldn't care about that in the first place.