I often say I was so much happier to be at an engineering because the people had the same interests. Your comment makes me realize it was more than that.
I did get the impression that the women at college, who were about 1/12 the total at the time, didn’t get many dates despite the numbers advantage.
Uh, that’s because we were there to study. Who has time for relationship drama when the graphics course alone is sucking up 25 hours a week of your time?! 
I have severe hyperacusis, and similar trouble separating sounds. I also have light sensitivity, and get migraines, and balance trouble, and nausea from flashing lights, moving lights, and rhythmic noises. It’s exhausing the amount of each of these.
I honestly haven’t been that active in it for a few years. When my ex got the house I had to return to renting, and landlords don’t like it when you punch holes in the building for feedlines and put up antennas for some reason. But it’s mostly a hobby for old men, I was close to the bottom age wise on the clubs I was in through to my early 40s 
Yeah, I also wonder on the self-selection. I know a few NT trans folks but they tend to be binary and straight, which isn’t really a feature common to my friend group.
Maybe we need a general sexuality thread? (Or I just couldn’t find it.) But this, I think, is also a form of ND:
There is this thread, though it’s both gender and sexuality Genderbender: Sexual Identity and Gender Identity
Oh, duh, of course you’re right! I’ll put it over there…thanks!
FFS. Can’t wait until there are no more vaccines ‘because they cause autism’.
Back before ‘screen time’, we looked at books instead of playing face-to-face with other children. It might be telling you something, but not what the the headline would make you think.
When I was a kid, my nose was always inside a book. My parents had to yell my name to get my attention. If I was that age now, it’d be a screen. Correlation isn’t causation yadda yadda…
Full disclosure: I am involved in this project.
Both is such fun.
Put a “u” between the “A” and “D” and I feel seen.
As a humanitarian, I really can’t recommend it.
Being a Genius™ would be much worse, tho.
That is a truly brilliant discussion of ADHD, and condemnation of the educational system.
Bonus: “Gifted is just neurodivergent in a different way.”
Clouds and boxes, again.
