How Can I Know If Something In A Study Applies to Me?

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Think of all the studies that say "we've found humans need this..." or "people learn X through Y.", etc, etc.

I know in a lot of these cases what it really means is "most people" rather than "all people". Knowing I have AS I know a lot of things work differently than the majority so how can I tell if something applies to me or not.

For example, sleep issues are often associated with autism. But what if autistic people have different sleep needs? Any research on that subject?

And then considering there are probably many autisms even with a study on autistic people even if they narrowed it down to Asperger's I still wouldn't know for sure. The greatest precision would be if they matched around specific IQ levels and controlled for "special interests" to see if there are differences within the ASD population based on those things, but I can imagine finding the people for that study would be very difficult.