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Yes, it's societal and systemic. The society expect is to act has a patriarchal society with all the expectations like being more social for the women.

This implies a bias on how we see the person. So if a girl didn't socialize, we will push her. If she socialize with masking heavily, we will say "it's fine". We need to deconstruct all of this and will find the female autists. The numbers will be completely different for the good of every autist.

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The number of times Ive been given demands to "smile more" comes to mind.
I dont even know if my fake smile is convincing. I suspect its not.

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in school (especially high school), I was always more drawn to girls who didn't smile all the time...

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People who always smile make me very nervous. My brain interprets constant smiling as an act, they're hiding their intent, a potential threat.
I don't mean an event is going on and they smiled all day. I mean when they're someone I see regularly, and they are smiling at all times.