Before here, I was active on a forum on an Alternative Rock site, AltScene. Well it's really a dating site, but only good for the forum, or was, as that's dwindling too.
Anyways, posters there thus have profiles, and everyone 18 - 20s all claim Autism... and everything else. Gosh, they're all "I'm Emo and I have ASD, ADHD, OCD, PTSD, MPD..." - you name it, it's there. This is all of them. Their dating profiles. This is how they're trying to attract somebody, with an alphabet soup of psychological disorders (except Schizophrenia. They never claim to be Schizophrenic. That's still too embarrassing for them)
When I first joined there a decade ago, it was really rough, a gauntlet. It was busier then, and I couldn't believe how hard they were on the newbs. But then I realized why after a while. Attention seeking special snowflakes who did nothing but whine and used their 'Autism' as an excuse for bad behavior. They wouldn't last long on the forum (when they got out of line).
Then I got on Facebook, and one of the AS forum members did a gazillion friend recommendations for me, and I saw the same thing. All these pages and groups of suicidal Emos 'on the spectrum.' Emo music may seem bad, but thae fanbase is worse. Anyone have the look, even slightly, I just get away from wherever they're at. It's worse than trying to start a fire with styrofoam.
So that's how I got to see all this so-called Autism, which is totally fake.
Back when I was that age a gazillion years ago, I had done volunteer work with Autistic youth and had two jobs connected to that later. So I saw Autism on a daily basis, the real deal, the Rain Man deal.
So not only do these kids of today not come close, it's also an insult to people really suffering from Autism. I mean, two the people in a group home that I worked at had been at Willowbrook, which if you haven't heard, was a hellhole of a mental institution which got exposed by Geraldo Rivera. That's how he lept into fame. He snuck in with a cameraman, filmed, and put it on the news. It was really sick and horrible. But at least it did bring change to that whole industry - because that's what it was, an industry. I hadn't seen that on the news then, but where I did work was the result of the changes that followed.