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The original was posted on /r/autism by /u/Existentialcrumble on 2024-03-02 17:57:05.

I have been doing taekwondo for the past year and have been increasingly noticing that the sport seems to have a disproportionate number of autistic people in it.

At first I just noticed that the majority of people seemed to work in stem and be very socially awkward, often interested in gaming or d&d (which also have significant neurodivergent communities), but I have found out at least 4 members of our club of about 25 seem have official diagnoses. This is about 4 times the average already, but I am sure that at least 5 others are somewhere on the spectrum.

The weird thing is, other adjacent sports don’t seem to show this pattern. From what I have gathered from people doing kickboxing, jiu jitsu and boxing, the people doing them on the whole seem to be less autistic-leaning.

I was wondering if anyone has also experienced this, with taekwondo or other sports? I just find it really interesting.