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Iirc, the point of the paper was that autistic people tend to do it more than non-autistic people, and on a broader scale.
Interestingly, one thing it pointed out was that people with autism tend to focus on the "non-human in online roleplaying and games" which is something I've (unsurprisingly) seen a lot.
Got any stories about the non-human online thing?
That's basically furries. Furries tend to be more likely to be autistic compared to the general population. I think non-autistic people tend to find furry stuff a bit uncanny at times, while autistic people can read them easily.
Yes i can see a overlap