Offhand thought about autism and troonery, one of the signs a very little kid may be autistic is mixing up pronouns. That is, when he means to say "I love broccoli" he says "you love broccoli." When he means to say "you are wearing a hat" he says "I am wearing a hat." The jury is out on whether this is a simple speech malfunction- picture a drawer in your brain where pronouns are kept, normies having a nice organizer in there and autists having a chaotic junk drawer- or if it represents a deeper confusion about "myself" vs "people around me."
Bearing this in mind I have wondered if autists may turn to troonery- especially in the context of social isolation and excessively online socialization- due to a confusion between "erotic object" and "subjective identity." IE, I am turned on by women= I am a woman.
One of my personal theories is that, for some people, this erotic target confusion may be caused by how boys and girls are seperated when they're very young, but then when they're teenagers they're expected to start mingling again and make up for years of segregation.
I think for normal kids this can be awkward, but add in autism, or general social isolation...
Plus, they say that autism can cause a general sort of 'rigidity' with which social norms may be followed, because they don't actually understand the spirit of the whole thing... so they may play it safe by following norms to the letter. It doesn't mean that someone like that will follow every 'norm'.
It may depend on what they see as 'worthwhile', which is something that I think most people have to figure out through trial-and-error their whole lives.
Basically,
>be 5 years old
>go up to girl
>"ew you're a boy, boys are gross"
>mfw
>years later
>WELL NOW I AM A GIRL, BITCHES!
That's how I imagine it goes for some people.
or like,
"oh, these girls only like girl stuff. so if I get into girly stuff too, i'm more likely to befriend a girl."
but if the girls are still skittish, then the guy may find it easier to befriend other guys who like girly shit. Then you get these fucking circlejerks where they're acting like they're 'totally not normal guys', cuz other guys make fun of them. Then......... /r/MtF.
Same shit happens with FtMs, in my opinion.
or, when you're a kid, I noticed it was usually the super girly-girls saying "ewww, boys are icky", and the tomboys are the ones cool with guys. but tomboys can get insanely competitive with the "MORE MANLY THAN U" shit, and I think this is where trannyism started taking off like a rocket.
then add in 3rd-wave feminism that says "YOU DON'T NEED NO MAN, BE YOUR OWN MAN! MEN ARE PIGS! MEN DON'T CARE ABOUT WOMEN! MEN DON'T LOVE YOU!" and you sever the final connection holding an androphile to womanhood. then they go from normal straight girl to autoandrophile.