"Have you ever seen evidence even anecdotally between autism and attractions to children?" How are you defining children? Of course everybody is to some extent or other attracted to pubescents under the AoC, the strength of that attraction varying from person to person as with any other trait. So to the extent that autists are over-represented among those with self-acknowledged attraction to the underaged, it is because they are less likely to internalise scripts about socially acceptable behaviour and expression, and thus less likely to suppress said attractions. |