Why assume that an incel is autistic?

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I remember watching a debate online on whether incels and AI (artificial intelligence) present a new terror threat. This terror expert believes it does present a new threat but it did kind of annoy me a little when describing individuals called incels some of which have committed mass shootings and violence towards women that there are neurodiverse and have mental conditions including autism because feel disconnected from other people but the way he was putting it across was as though these people must "all" be autistic. No one on there came to step in and say "you're wrong, not all these people are autistic and it's not really the reason why they commit these acts."
I hate the stereotyping and generalising that these people possibly all have autism to explain what they did. Far as I am aware the columbine killers were not autistic and Charles Whitman, a marine who shot over 40 people and killed 11 in 1966 in Texas wasn't autistic.

From what I've experienced on various forums & seen on this forum, some autistic guys do get accused of being incel because we are frustrated about being single & don't explain things right so others misunderstand our frustration as a hatred towards women. However I did not know that that there is a stereotype that all incels are autistic. On some other forums the word Autistic is a slang word for Trolling so I'm wondering if perhaps the person who said all incels are autistic really meant that all incels are like trolls Either way it's very concerning how words like Incel & Autistic are getting stereotyped & thrown about these days & applied to people who don't fit the official original meanings.

I just find it irritating when it is assumed that most of these people are autistic when most probably were not.

I didn't know that people made that assumption. I figured the bulk of them were nt, only because most people in general are. I hope that isn't true.

Not something I didn't hear about around the internet.


Something about male autistics whining about not having a girlfriend. And the misogynistic remarks about women, or how females had it easier.

And then that thought and rants aligns with group just as frustrated with the same things.

The worst parts are to do with justifying said people's social incompetence and blame/pretend it's all autism.
That actual autistics are said to have some sort of 'pass' for being inappropriate.


Could care less about the autistic bits.

The heck do those heterosexual boys and men (assuming all are, since these are males explicitly wanting sexual female partners) were fed their heads with these days?

That's my question.
The heck all those crap are coming from?

Crap parts' origin that's oozing with toxicity and self loathing of today.
Not the establishment of the support group's origin of being 'involuntarily celibates'.

This is a question coming from an autistic aro-ace AFAB who had never dealt with anything related to that my whole life.

Because the whole thing is basically filtered from my life. And emotionally disinterested.
I could study about those so called colored pills and be unmoved by it.


Still, I'd rather know where and who put those ideas in their heads coming from than just mere condemn them.

Other than that it's just humans, with seemingly similar complexes, "banded together" across the globe, never done before in history -- always existed, and just took and hijacked the label incel for themselves.

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Incel is often an insult thrown around with much thought, nowadays.

There will be plenty of socially awkward, non-Autistic NT's who are incels, as well as any Autistic incels.

^ How does the term incel, which stands for involuntary celibate, have anything to do with being a conspiracy theorist or having an eating disorder?

I am curious.

^ I thought that adjacent in this context just meant alongside, but then I couldn't think of what conspiracy theorists, people with eating disorders & incels had in common.

Thank you, funeralxempire. I think you explained what I meant better than I could have.

You're welcome. There's always good chance I'm wrong in my interpretations so thank you for confirming.