Quantitative Analysis of Narrative Discourse by Autistic Adults of Underrepresented Genders.

Autistic narrators of diverse genders have more linguistic similarities than differences. Autistic women may be more likely to talk about emotions and other internal states than autistic men. Gender-based expectations for spoken communication about internal states should be carefully reconsidered. More research is necessary to determine whether the results of this small study will generalize to larger samples of autistic people whose genders are currently underrepresented in the research literature.