My suspicion is that neurodiverse people are already used to feeling marginalized and unacceptable for invisible reasons, so there’s less of a social barrier-to-entry in coming out. Like, “Everybody already thinks I’m weird and doesn’t want to hang out; might as well tell 'em I’m queer.”
I think there are probably a lot of neurotypical people that have non-heteronormative impulses and try to quash them for the sake of social status.
Perhaps the confounding factor is neurodiversity? Anecdotally, a lot more neurodiverse people seem to be LGBT and vice versa.
My suspicion is that neurodiverse people are already used to feeling marginalized and unacceptable for invisible reasons, so there’s less of a social barrier-to-entry in coming out. Like, “Everybody already thinks I’m weird and doesn’t want to hang out; might as well tell 'em I’m queer.”
I think there are probably a lot of neurotypical people that have non-heteronormative impulses and try to quash them for the sake of social status.