> common, mild cases where the person has no serious issues existing in society and frequently benefits from their "disorder"

This is not at all a thing. People with some mild neurodivergence sometimes being good at very specific tasks is not even in the same ballpark as "Benefits"

There's no benefit to a brain that struggles in modern society.

>but I assume that it is referring the fact that these two extremes need to be treated completely differently

Except they don't. What is different is the intensity of the treatment. My girlfriend needs patience and a little therapy. Her sister needs intense forever therapy and infinite patience and a system that will allow her to live despite never being able to be a productive member of society.

>They do not for a moment think about the more severe cases that require people to have full time caretakers because they are unable to feed themselves.

They are regularly the parents of exactly those people and are sick and tired of you speaking for them and making their life harder. Those people who need fulltime caretakers can only pay for them through social security benefits, and guess who is trying to change that?

>even discussing ASD is made remarkably difficult because these extremes are the same diagnosis.

The reams of neurodivergent people I have interacted with in my life have never found issues with this, and have regularly been very willing to engage with the nuance of a poorly understood disorder which by definition has no single cause and might be several similar looking diseases because that's what the word disorder means in medical science

The discourse around RFK is that morons with no experience, training, or even ability to read introductory material apparently should shut the fuck up, and let the adults work.