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ARE AUTISTIC PEOPLE MORE LIKELY TO BE GAY
5 tim more likely to intify as bisexual than non-tistic mal, whereas tistic femal are three tim more likely to intify as homosexual than non-tistic femal.
Elizabeth Weir, a PhD ndidate at the Autism Rearch Centre Cambridge, and the lead rearcher of the study, said: “Unrstandg the tersectnal inti of tistic dividuals who are asexual, bisexual, homosexual, or ‘other’ sexualy is key. A higher percentage of tistic people intify as lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, or queer (LGBTQ) than the general populatn, acrdg to rearch studi. Studi vary wily on the percentage of people wh tism who are gay, lbian, or bisexual.
Jt, who did not want his last name ed, disvered high school that he was both tistic and gay. “I knew what beg gay was, but I personally lacked the emotnal self-awarens for a while until I realized that’s what I was feelg toward other guys, ” he explas.