asd in patients with gender dysphoria found 7.8% of patients to be on the autism spectrum. another study consisting of online surveys that included those who identified as nonbinary and those identifying as transgender without diagnoses of gender dysphoria found the number to be as high as 24% of gender diverse people having autism, versus around 5% of the surveyed cisgender people. a possible hypothesis for the correlation may be that autistic people are less able to conform to societal norms, which may explain the high number of autistic individuals who identify outside the stereotypical gender binary. as of yet, there have been no studies specifically addressing the occurrence of autism in intersex individuals. a study conducted by byers and nichols (2014) explored the level of sexual satisfaction of high-functioning autistic individuals, with researchers testing the sexual and relationship satisfaction of neurotypical versus high functioning autistic individuals. the results suggest that men with asd are generally less satisfied with their relationship or marriage compared to neurotypical men and women, and women with asd.