Anyone else think ASD is a made-up disease?

1. At least some autists most certainly could function, even when that old man was a kid. It's just that people understood the condition less back then, thus the stereotypes. Also, due to this lack of understanding, many people who had Autism or another spectrum disorder but were functional went undiagnosed.
2. ASD is most certainly not made up, and if you actually took the time to do the effing research you'd understand that.
3. ASD is not a disease, it's a disorder. Disease means that the person suffers from many negative effects with little to no positive trade-offs. Disorder means that the person is simply abnormal in a very noticeable and/or significant way. Learn the difference.

Please do the research before making sweeping judgments about people and conditions. The people who identify/discover (not sure which word is better) these disorders are much more qualified to study psychological conditions than you are.

Have people forgotten the concept of jokes? I didn't mean to trigger you.

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ParodyRetcon

You don't have to make me look at a website to let me know you didn't like the meme. Just downvote it and move on with your life.

So I "shut down free speech" by pointing out that you were wrong on several points?

I kinda have a hard time figuring out your thought process...

Also, did you even go to the website address, or just make some baseless assumptions about the website's content?

I read it, and from what I gathered, you think that me calling the meme a joke was to cover the fact that it wasn't funny (to you). So, I am super clear on what your opinion is of the meme. Message received.
Can we move on now? Or do you still have some issues getting triggered? You have this very aggressive tone to your responses that lead me to think that if I was in front of you, you would try to kick my ass just because of something I said didn't sit well with you. THAT is shutting down free speech.
I wonder if you grew up when Don Rickles was popular. If you never experienced "insult comedy", then I can see why people have such meltdowns over comments and jokes about something that may or may not pertain to them personally.
I thought with a user name like yours, you would be a "live and let live" kind of guy. Doesn't look that way.

I was perfectly civil and reasonable. I have experienced "insult comedy", and r/BertStrips is my favorite subreddit, so please stop claiming I'm triggered because I happened to think that this meme was dead serious and you legitimately beleived that ASD was a "made up disease". You don't make that the title of your meme when you're just joking.

The link was about people who claim their work was intended as a parody because someone pointed out it was bad and/or innacurate.

I apologize if I came off as confrontational, I did not intend it to be that way.