Why are so many autistic people unattractive?

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I think that I'm pretty average looking and definitely not in shape (due to injuries).

I don't have a problem with getting NT women to like me. I have been married. Last year I slept with five different women without making any real effort to date. For whatever reason, I'm like a magnet for NT women between 30 and 60. Apparently, I'm intelligent, funny, sweet, compassionate, interesting, and charmingly quirky in their eyes.

Unfortunately, NT women exhausts me. They just want too much attention from me and I can't keep up with their wants and needs. I would like starting to date autistic girls instead, but I have no idea on how to get autistic girls to like me. The irony isn't lost on me.

Hmm prob because of how some autistics hold their bodies/posture, how they dress, how they speak and act makes you seem more or less atractive also, not washing, additional disabilities or deformities, not keeping fit, just not having won the genetic lottery.
I try to look my best and I do dress nice and wash and stuff but I'd say I'm not as pretty as other girls.

Define attractive.

I can be physically appealing, but i turn guys off in other ways. Im not very feminine. I say weird stuff, and im into weird stuff. I probably have ocd. I like being alone a lot. Im shy abd socially awkward.

Why should those undiagnosed autistics with jobs etc "flying under the radar" not count?

I don't know, I've done OK myself and I tend to prefer the appearance of Aspies to stereotyped fashion models and movie stars, so I don't know where the OP is coming from with his assumption. Seems to be a rather convoluted, "logical" argument about a very subjective matter. If the beholder has been influenced by some hive-mind canon of "good visual taste," I think I'd rather not be attractive to them. It'd be like having a free insect repellent.

They're autistic (hence, disabled)?

Most people don't want to take on a burden.

I dunno about the rest of you, but I'm fat and ugly on purpose. You didn't have the opposite sex getting down your pants at 12 years old. You didn't have parents that actively discouraged you from having a girlfriend, let alone any friends. You didn't grow up being paranoid, having an undiagnosed bipolar mother and an emotionally stunted father. And people wonder why I'm such a jackass?

I thought I've seen countless threads here saying that Aspies are more attractive?

The contradictions that go on here drive me mad.

I've seen plenty of attractive people with Aspergers, especially the girls because, girls make more effort to fit in

In case you haven't noticed already, society puts way too much pressure on people to look "beautiful", especially if you are female. And because of this many if not most people think they look hideous when they actually don't, and feel awful about themselves even when they look stunning to everyone else.

If I'm "ugly" because I don't spend every day smearing toxic chemicals on my face, or wear clothes that have my body parts hanging out, or get silicone injected into me until I'm more plastic and fake than a Barbie doll, then guilty as charged.

I better stop posting before I break my computer screen...

Lack of confidence.

I think this is a valid topic. Although I don't know the OP's intention, I think he seriously wants to discuss it or see other people's opinions, not for the sake of insulting people. I have a feeling that he does have a specific purpose, which I think is legitimate. I may be wrong.

Any way, although attractiveness is very subjective, you can still have a generally accepted idea of "attractive people". I cannot give that generally accepted definition myself but I'm sure many people can think of typical attractive people.

Very vaguely put, ideal physical appearance for whichever sex (which in itself is very subjective but can still be further defined), confident mannerism, kindness, being a good listener/conversationalist etc seem to be the attributes of attractive people in general.

Physical appearance doesn't seem to be as powerful as it initially seems in attracting people. There is a very good-looking autistic WP member (he himself mentioned that without bragging) (who hasn't posted recently) but he has very poor interpersonal skills. He was saying that people always got put off by his awkwardness/weirdness very quickly.

This guy that I met IRL (not autistic) initially didn't look that attractive to me, but when he started to talk to me, I suddenly became attracted to him. He is kind, confident in a pleasant way and is a good conversationalist.

I think 'confidence' and 'being a good conversationalist' are the major problems that autistic people have in relation to being attractive. In addition many of us probably don't have a good idea of how to dress well or don't even have the desire to create a physically attractive body. Some probably are not even interested in attracting people.