I’m married to an autistic guy and both our kids are too, they’re definitely different in lots of ways but they’re also very normal in just as many ways and it really throws people off that yes autistic people are actually just normal people who might need a little more time to do something or a more clarification or different instructions, they’re not all inherently any particular way that your average person can just recognize. The public understanding of autism seems to be based almost purely on biases and assumptions, heuristics… which is ironic