Autigender
Autigender is a term which describes the relationship which autistic individuals have with their sense of gender. Many people feel that autism causes them to have a very different understanding of their gender than is expected of them. Autistic people can struggle to infer social expectations, intentions and abstract concepts which lack tangible rules and reasons, such as socially constructed expectations like gender, which can vary between different cultures. Traits which may be expected of a particular gender, such as interests, behaviours, choice of clothing, hair length, and body type, may feel inauthentic to an individual. This can lead to a more distant relationship with expected gender and more connection to an alternative sense of gender. This can include connection to the opposite binary gender from that which is socially expected, as well as various non-binary identities and non-gendered identities.
Autigender is often incorrectly interpreted as saying that "autism" is one's gender.