Are a lot of people on this website on the spectrum?

I'm not on the spectrum and I post pretty controversial/polarizing content on here to promote different schools of thought or trying to bring awareness to my political agenda. 
 

I think the "hurr durr how do I make friends" or "why don't any girls flirt with me except that bottom bucket sa trying to get a ft offer" are from genuine 4chan neckbeards like Randy Marsh, T30Alumnus and the other incels/black supremacists.

Didn't read that long ass paragraph, but yeah, I'm gay sometimes as well, sexuality is fluid. Why do you ask?

Could be that the normal prospects just ask the upperclassmen at their schools for advice while the less socially apt kids have to use online resources. WSO is full of some great advice and some blatant misinformation. People are probably better off talking to people who got into IB from the most comparable position to their own. I didn’t join WSO until after I was done recruiting and have found the main benefit is hearing what other people in finance think. WSO has a highly specific user base compared to reddit or twitter.

IMO there's a ton of people on the spectrum in IB who just don't know it because their perception of "on the spectrum" is the special needs kid in high school who jerked off in front of the entire class, and not a minor case of a combo of being socially awkward and intensely focused on a few key interests. 

The sheer grind and focus it takes to break into IB makes it have a higher % of autistic people than the total population.

Agree with half your post....definitely on all the weird stuff about not being able to get a date...

However, on the other subjects, yes, some people reject the need to blow their money on dumb materialistic things at a young age. I realize that's what most of society wants you to do. Some people have a different point of view. Nothing wrong there. Personally, I find the conversations about buying $10,000 watches as a 1st year analyst to be much more puzzling and frankly sad.

On the pronouns, I don't really care what trans people do. But do you not find the direction our society is going a bit strange and frightening? We have male trans athletes breaking all the records in women's sport. We have people demanding that they be called xer/xir at job interviews based on little to no science. Maybe, this shouldn't be your primary issue to get riled up about, but if you don't see this approach to make people accept things which we all know are not true (biological males competing against biological females in sport for example) you are asleep at the wheel and your target degree is worth the paper that it is written on.

somewhat offensive to conflate having asd with being a racist or sexist

People gripe on all sorts of forums but I do not think this means there are more people on the spectrum here.  Some people, not all, are just taking advantage of having an anon username.  Most of these people would never say this stuff in real life.  If they did say some of these things in real life, they would damage their personal relationships and or be out of a job.     

Gotta say FlyingRunningJumping almost has a point with this very post on how it has devolved into another pronoun battle. However, I think there is a sort of cause and effect going on here.

It's as if half your office tomorrow showed up wearing a dildo on their forehead in support of unicorn rights. You point out to them the obvious fact that wearing a dildo on your forehead is kind of a dumb thing to do to support unicorns. They scream back, 'Why do you care? Is it bothering you? Do you hate unicorns?"

And guess what? No, it doesn't bother me. I don't care about unicorns or what they do, but now that you are attacking me for simple stating reality....you know... now I suddenly care about your stupid bullshit, even if I still don't care about the unicorns. 

Three factors:

1) People are a lot more unfiltered on the internet. Chances are, there are folks in your office thinking some of the stuff you see vocalized on here, but you’d never be able to guess who. 

2) If you’re a bit obsessive, you’re more likely to post here. If you don’t have many friends, connections, ability to connect with in-the-know upperclassmen, etc., you’re more likely to post here. If you’re just an internet fiend in general, you’re more likely to post here. Not necessarily ASD, but there is definitely a subset of highly complementary personality traits that pushes users here.

3) This site has a much more non-target slant than Wall Street as a whole — hence, kids are much more fixated on the “grind,” etc. than is your average 1st-year at a BB/EB. And maybe there’s something to be said about the average polish of non-targets vs. targets that causes further attitudinal differentiation. 

Most people who have a conservative/non-liberal opinion on social issues aren't going to show it in real life due to the backlash they would get in the USA. Unless I am talking to my absolutely closest friends, I would never show my real opinions in public (unless I 100% know the person I am talking to shares the same mindset as me). Even when I talk to people who share a similar mindset, I rarely go into full depth of what I think because it's too risky. Also, people on the internet in any space are going to be much more vocal and polarizing since it's the internet where you are anonymous and fierce since you have nothing physically in front of you. I mean just go to reddit and you'll see how far left politics are the norm on basically every sub. WSO is somewhat of an escape from the reddit space. 

With that being said, I think most finance guys are conservative or at least not with the whole woke, far left agenda. Mostly libertarian if I had to guess. As someone who represents what you're trying to call out, I see it as more of a mentally tough/masculine personality. Kind of like the old blue collar guys who are tough as nails and aren't putting up with social values that are weird or different or ie locker room talk. 

I think what's happening is like the saying that "todays conservatives are yesterdays liberals". I think you have a lot of "old" conservative mindsets (which is what you're talking about) versus the "new" conservatives and liberals who accept most of these left leaning social ideas. I think OP is someone who is clearly in the modern American mindset of accepting certain things, but not everyone in America is willing to move forward with these ideas (or at least I'm not). However, that doesn't make me on the spectrum. 

WSO is a huge bar where you can hang out with folks all over the world - and the cannon can get loose. Many people here come here a few drinks in with less filter than at work. Some solid advice, some trolling, shit ton of flexing. Just another side of this great finance community.

If I wash harder, the stains will come off.

I am not on the spectrum, but deal with a severe mental illness. Most people don’t notice it and many of my closest friends have no idea.

What am I supposed to do if I make 150k+ as a 22 year old? Like genuinely curious, what should I spend it on?? That's not enough money to make any big ticket purchases, and if you are in your early 20s, you should probably be saving aggressively because you don't know how long your career will be and how long you'll have energy to grind for, or if the entire economy is going to collapse soon. Not to mention that time is money; investing early will pay huge dividends later. It's always the people straddled with debt or those who make a low income that talk big about spending money.