Well established where, outside of the minds of autistic men? Everything I’ve ever seen has shown that women on the spectrum are evaluated about twice as negatively on measures of approachability/awkwardness by their peers [1], are more likely to commit suicide[2] (even though women in the general population are less likely to), less likely to have friendships after age 10 [3], and less likely to get married [4]. There seems to be a period in early childhood where women are either better at masking or not disruptive enough to be noticed, but the long-term outcomes are worse on every measure.
A related fact, though I don't have a citation at hand, is that masking behaviors are often associated with worse mental health and overall outcomes. Third-parties might perceive an autistic person who masks their behaviors as "higher-functioning", but it's often bad for the individual.
i'm sorry my comment seems to have offended you. so far most of what i read on it has been pop-science. newspaper articles. books. the like. this is pretty interesting and brings a different perspective.
I’ve thought since consumer-level genetic testing first came out that there would be a place for a company to do it fully, truly anonymized using tor+crypto or something similar. It’s a bit surprising to me that it doesn’t exist yet; if I had the right background I’d probably go for it myself. There has to be a decent number of people that want to know, but don’t want anyone else to.
Unfortunately, there is limited interest in genome privacy. There is also a BIG interest in getting people to surrender their genomes.
""But its for the good of humanity, so don't worry about any possible downside.""
Personally, I am trying to develop molecular cryptography, so that genetic data can be protected even if, theoretically, we cannot trust our computers.
It would have to be something to the effect of getting the kit in a store and sending it in with a public key and no return address. They check that the associated account has paid, run whatever analysis and add the encrypted results to the account. The major bottleneck is probably getting the kits to the user; workarounds I can think of that don’t involve having your own kit available in stores would be either having a list of generic kits that would work or piggybacking off of 23andme’s distribution and accepting their kits (though I’m sure they wouldn’t be happy about that, to say the least).
The Alice company would either put DNA collection kits for sale on Amazon or tell people where they can buy a kit that meets the required criteria for collection.
Then people pay the company in bitcoin (how to separate your bitcoins from your identity is left as a exercise for the user) and once they've paid they're provided an input field to enter a public key they've generated.
The website would then generate a barcode you'd use to label your sample before mailing it in, or it could be a QR code of your public key.
When a sample arrives at the lab they scan the barcode, and check to ensure that there is a public key tied to that bar code and that they've paid.
They then run the sample and publish the results online, accessible to all, but also encrypted with that users public key.
The user then checks the website every day for week after they've sent their sample in. Once they find their results by searching all results for the one labeled with their public key they download the results and then use their private key to unencrypt them.
[1] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5286449/
[2] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/c...
[3] http://psycnet.apa.org/record/1995-97924-000
[4] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10803-007-0441-x