merralea

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.

[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

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).

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.