You obviously did not claim autism as a superpower.

Still this “everyone is a bit autistic” stuff is kind of absurd. It diminishes the condition.

> most people that I know, including myself, say that we are "somewhere on the spectrum"

No one says “everyone I know is a bit paraplegic”, because that would be insane. Yet people glibly call themselves autistic as if having geeky hobbies or a job in software is the same as being diagnosable as having an autism spectrum disorder.

> Still this “everyone is a bit autistic” stuff is kind of absurd. It diminishes the condition.

Again nowhere am I saying that.

Maybe I could have worded it much better but I never meant to imply, it happens that like myself a larger portion of the people I hang out with are diagnosed which for me works with just saying "most people" but I can see why that was not clear.

Well, I won't get a diagnosis. Especially so after trump put in RFK.

RFK ordered all MDs to report all autistic people to the federal government. I know how history works, and know exactly where that leads.

So yeah, self-treat in ways that make me effective. And so far, washed out of college but working as a senior systems engineer. I say I'm doing rather well.

My dad also had the similar affect as well. He was too old to be diagnosed by medical establishment.