I'll make a few research-based posts in the coming days since you guys seem to like them. Here's the first one.

We won't talk too much about dating in this post. After all, the various pills have implications that reach far beyond dating.

But people often talk about "autism acceptance" and how we as a society need to accept those who are neurodivergent. I agree in principle. But significant portions of the movement appear extremely hypocritical from my perspective.

I have observed that most NT people will never empathize with autistic people even to the point where they understand just a few fundamental things about them. Despite this, they will endlessly virtue signal about "autism acceptance."

Here is a study which shows that "high-functioning" autistic people are perceived as awkward and less approachable by IQ-comparable NTs within a few seconds, long before the validity of such traits can be properly ascertained.

https://www.nature.com/articles/srep40700#discussion

I was always told by normies and ABA therapists in my childhood that I should empathize with other people more and engage in honest conversation, but I discovered that very few people would try to empathize with me even a little bit. Indeed, this paradigm was intensified as many of those who most vehemently told me I needed to be more empathetic were themselves some of the least empathetic people I have ever met; they were clearly projecting as they would call other autistic people and people with learning disabilities r*****s and make fun of the LGBT kids.

But now, here is a study with high-functioning samples that reveals that people with autism do not lack empathetic ability compared to NTs.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6794557/

So what's the problem? Apparently, we are disliked because of our lack of affective facial expressions (i.e., fake smiles, etc.)

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/aur.2037

All of the above studies are from 2018 and 2019, well after "autism acceptance" was culturally ingrained in the US.

It honestly makes me laugh (and not a fake laugh either; I was never good at those) that the main reason we're shunned in social interactions and told that we need to have "more empathy" is because of our unwillingness or inability to contort our faces in certain ways in response to certain cues. Meanwhile, even under the guise of “autism acceptance,” most of those normies who tell us this BS will never try to empathize with us enough to understand why some of us find it difficult or impossible to perform affective facial expressions. But this difficulty is apparently a reason why many of us have no friends and why the majority of us will go from the beginning to the end of our lives without a partner, not because of our "personalities" [Chris Chan and his ilk excluded].

Maybe it's "autism acceptance" only for the autistic people who are "normal" enough.