Anyone notice that autistic females are tiny?

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I always notice that alot of autistic females are very short. I am 5 feet tall but it's due to my moms genetics because she is the same height as me. But my dad is fairly tall. I have noticed that that the autistic females I met a lot of them are short and around my height. I wonder if there is a connection.

I'm not

That's the Baader-Meinhof Phenomenon in action -- a cognitive bias that inflates the importance of recent stimuli or observations. This increases the chances of being more aware of the subject when we encounter it again in the near future. It's like when you buy a certain pair of shoes and suddenly see them everywhere.

Some people who have been recently diagnosed as being on the ASD spectrum will begin to see "Aspies" everywhere, and wrongly claim that they have suddenly developed some kind of "Aspiedar".

I am nearly spot-on average height and mass for a woman

I'm not exactly tiny either!

Nope, never noticed that.

I've met one confirmed Aspie in real life and she was not short.

Two young ladies I worked with were almost certainly aspie. And both were exactly five feet tall. Short. And they were probably the first two aspies females I ever met. So I might have been tempted to make the same generalization at one time.

But I have been to a support group with a couple dozen members. The females are definitely not all tiny. Most males and females are average, and one female is rather large as I recall.

I am. I put it down to how little I ate as a child. Mum tried really hard with me but I wouldn't eat anything, so I also was incredibly skinny. I'm 4"11. I still don't eat much so I'm slim but I'm not bony anymore.

It was sensory stuff to do with taste sensitivity rather than an eating disorder so I kind of think of that as an aspie thing. Were you the same?

I'm not. I am 5"6 and seem to be broad-shouldered. Most NT women seem to be shorter than me.

... No.

I'm at least inches taller than the average female from where I live, and I'm generally skinny. Any autistics I've seen so far just varies in physical size like any other people do.

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The only thing that seems to really be the most common thing I've noticed in 99% of autistics I've ever met in real life, online or seen on TV or YouTube, is the wearing of glasses. Same with downs syndrome people too.

But not body size. Autistics come in all shapes and sizes.

I'm 172cm and 75kg. Not massive, but definitely not small. I do have glasses though.

I’m slightly less than 5’5” and weigh more than I’d like to, so it’s certainly not true in my case.

I'm 172 cm and while I'm not overweight I do have some stomach left from the time I was, so I wouldn't call myself tiny. When I was in junior high there was another (diagnosed) autistic girl in my class and while she was very skinny, she was also tall. So no, I'm not all that sure about it being a thing.