A lot easier to find love if your gay?

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It's not that I don't believe you. I just have a problem with social science statistics in general.
I don't know anyone who has ever been interviewed on any of these topics for autistic people.
I participated in a big research panel for the government but that was more about public policy.

Social science studies don't apply to individuals.

I would NEVER go by the results of a social science study. I disregard them as not being applicable to ME. I'm not going to go by the results of this study, and conclude that "autistic men are less fertile than non-autistic men."

There are people who just don't want to have kids----it's not that they are INCAPABLE of having them. Both NT and autistic.

There happen to be many diagnosed autistic people on this Site who have children. And are raising them successfully. I happen to not have kids----but I could, before my prostate surgery, most definitely, father them. My testosterone is still in the "normal" range, even after my prostate surgery.

I don't use demographics to determine how to proceed in life.

Too many people here use demographics, and conclude things which might very well not be true as far as THEY are concerned. They might be "true" in the form of the composite. But individuals are not composites.

It's irrelevant to me.

If I wanted to father a child, I would have.

I'm autistic, and I was fertile until I got my prostate removed. Autism did not affect my ability to father children. And it doesn't affect the ability of many other autistic men and women to have children. And I'm "classic" autistic, rather than having "Asperger's."

There are people on this site with multiple children.

I think if I posted here that the sun rises in the east, someone would post no it doesn't.

It does rise in the east.

Maybe it's true that autistic people, on average, have less children than non-autistic people. But I don't believe it has anything to do with their biology. It has to do with many factors other than biology. It might be biology if there is a co-morbid chromosomal disorder associated with their autism.

Therefore, when I, as an autistic person, read the results of these studies, I don't go by them. They are irrelevant to me.

I wish people would not believe that autistic people are "defective" in some way, because they are allegedly "less fertile" than non-autistic people.

This is the crux of the problem----this assumption of "defectiveness." An assumption that people with autism are genetically "defective." I am NOT genetically defective. I would be proud to pass my genes over to any kid I create with my woman.

Do people with Down syndrome have children of there own?

A few Down Syndrome women have given birth to children. The percentage is very low, though. Probably because they have an extra chromosome. People with Down Syndrome almost always have 47 chromosomes instead of the usual 46 chromosomes. Every human being has 23 sets of chromosomes. The chromosomes are almost always arranged in pairs. People with Down Syndrome have three Chromosome 21's, instead of the usual two. This fact might be behind the reason why they usually cannot conceive children.