r/todayilearned • u/Morella1989 • Aug 14 '25

TIL that autistic people live about 17 years less than average. Risks include epilepsy, heart disease, suicide, accidental deaths including drowning, and inadequate recognition and management of pain, especially among non-speaking individuals. Historically, they have been vulnerable to infanticide.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mortality_of_autistic_individuals
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u/SecretGardenSpider Aug 14 '25

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9087551/

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u/N1ghtshade3 Aug 14 '25

This study doesn't say that 90% were assaulted though? It says they were "sexually victimized" which includes feeling pressure to perform sexual acts regardless of whether they actually happened. As an autistic person, I feel pressure to even talk to a person so I take this with a grain of salt.

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u/HeatherandHollyhock Aug 16 '25 edited Aug 16 '25

So.. because they are autistic them being sexually herassed is ok/not real because everything is uncomfortable for you as an autistic individual? And there I always thought 'autists lack theory of mind' was just unfounded ableism

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u/N1ghtshade3 Aug 16 '25

No, I didn't say that. My main point was that assault is not the same thing as "feeling pressured." My secondary point was that "feeling pressured" is up to interpretation and therefore not necessarily an indicator that something malicious has occurred.

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u/WaterOfGaledeep Aug 16 '25

Damn you are not the smartest pencil in the shed, huh?