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582K members. The best post we have captured here reached 860 upvotes, which works out to 1 per 1,000 members.

1peak upvotes per 1,000 members
582Kmembers
860best post
470most comments
308posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

58% 39%
Text 58% Question 39% Image 1% Link 1% Video 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Question 61 Vent Advice Wanted 44 Social Struggles 33 🫢🏻 Friendships/Relationships 21 Newly Diagnosed 20 Shutdown/Meltdowns 14 Communication 13 πŸ’Ό Education/Employment 11 🎧 Sensory Issues 10 Burnout 9

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

Spencer's continuing to infantalize and treat Autism like a quirky, inferior concept and NOT a disablity.

↑ 860 πŸ’¬ 470 gallery 2026

Are any autistics here happily employed?

↑ 400 πŸ’¬ 451 question 2026

I get hard when talking to women, I know I’m disgusting

↑ 370 πŸ’¬ 173 text 2026

I DID IT I DID SCHOOL!!!

↑ 221 πŸ’¬ 40 text 2026

"Neuro-Degenerative diseases"

↑ 196 πŸ’¬ 65 text 2026

it's the eyes isn't it

↑ 178 πŸ’¬ 49 text 2026

How are some autistic people able to have friends / social circle, while I can’t?

↑ 152 πŸ’¬ 70 question 2026

My daughters rage episodes when I say I’m getting a headache

↑ 136 πŸ’¬ 34 text 2026

Do any of you speak in either a high pitched or monotone voice?

↑ 129 πŸ’¬ 109 question 2026

I wish I weren’t autistic. I’m so saddened by this lonely existence

↑ 119 πŸ’¬ 37 text 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/autism, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

How many members does r/autism have?
r/autism has about 582K members. ViralHunt has tracked 308 of its posts; the biggest reached 860 upvotes, which is 1 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/autism?
"Spencer's continuing to infantalize and treat Autism like a quirky, inferior concept and NOT a disablity." reached 860 upvotes and 470 comments in 2026, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/autism.
What subreddits are similar to r/autism?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/Snorkblot, r/Yosemite, r/DailyShow, r/asheville.
What kind of posts do best on r/autism?
Of the posts we hold, 58% are text posts and 39% are question posts.
When is the best time to post on r/autism?
Across 308 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Wednesday at 22:00 UTC (145 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (78 avg upvotes), Wednesday at 15:00 UTC (76 avg upvotes). The busiest day is Thursday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/autism?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/autism has 53 upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 308 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/autism, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.