This sounds kind of plausible to me, but couldn’t you equally say that you’d expect autism to be mitigating factor to cultiness, because cults are about conformity to group shibboleths for social reasons which autistic people are better at avoiding ? (At least, I’d have thought we are. Maybe only I have that perception?) That kind of makes me think that actually it is just easy to generate plausible-sounding hypothesis about the effects of a fairly broad and nebulous thing like “autistic traits” and maybe none of them should be taken that seriously without statistical evidence to back them up.
This sounds kind of plausible to me, but couldn’t you equally say that you’d expect autism to be mitigating factor to cultiness, because cults are about conformity to group shibboleths for social reasons which autistic people are better at avoiding ? (At least, I’d have thought we are. Maybe only I have that perception?) That kind of makes me think that actually it is just easy to generate plausible-sounding hypothesis about the effects of a fairly broad and nebulous thing like “autistic traits” and maybe none of them should be taken that seriously without statistical evidence to back them up.