>>10806996I've thought about these social issues and diseases for a while now, and I think it really boils down to two major factors: The tenacity of autism and waning interest in the series. I'll start with the tenacity of autism as my main point. I have plenty of experience with autistic individuals (via close friends and family, not self although (you) are going to reply that anyway) and understand their behavior and behavior trends. Most people with autism have very strong bonds to things that they like, and have extreme difficulty with change and changes to their environment. That said, if you can land an autistic person as a fan of your product, you will have a customer for most, if not all of their life. I have also noticed that they can be more easily coerced or convinced to adopt ideologies due to self doubt and social rules already being a difficult concept for them. I think this is also the main reason why *all* of the trans ideology active participants that I have come across throughout college and adult life have been autistic. The social world can be scary for them, and it makes sense to adopt a lifestyle that seems like a "cheatcode" into social acceptance and success. Why learn all of the complicated ins-and-outs of the social hierarchy and behavioral norms when you can join an association and automatically be correct, right, and popular by society's new standards (which won't last, but can you explain forethought to someone desperate enough to chop their junk off and walk around in a dress?).
Where does that leave us now? You have an autistic fan-for-life who is also a transexual. They are currently populating the bionicle fandom area. Okay? So what? This leads to my next point, which is waning interest in the series.
Bionicle was popular in the early 2000's, and waned in popularity into the early 2010's. Transgenderism is still a bad joke at this point in time, and is only really seen as monty python sketch. ten years pass and you are now in 2020.
