Nowadays it’s fashionable to be autistic and diagnose yourself. This is especially true for people who like to think they’re intelligent. Elon for example.

Neurotypical flocking at its worst. Kanye West, who has a bipolar diagnosis and behaves like someone with bipolar, says he is autistic. A common theme is finding a reason why it's OK to be lacking into insight into yourself and others.

This study does some quality work that deconstructs "autism"

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41588-025-02224-z

into several phenotypes which are really different diseases, which might be the beginning of the end of this nightmare.