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I did for a few months/years, but I stopped a while ago. But you'd never have known I was neurodivergent except by watching me for a while, I wasn't advertising the fact. I assume it's the same with a bunch of other streamers, there are probably a bunch, but it'd be kinda difficult to figure out.
Apart from that, streaming I think doesn't particularly lend itself for autistic folk. We're just usually not as conventionally charismatic and entertaining. I never had more than 5-10 viewers, and I assume it's similar with others. You only get bigger if you have mainstream appeal, which I think is relatively unlikely for autistic streamers.
So yeah, I'm interested to see other responses to this thread, but I assume there'll be little.