“We have found this really important, never-before-understood difference in autism that is meaningful, has implications for intervention, and can help us understand autism in a more concrete way than we ever have before,”

So we might be able to make all the non-autistic people autistic? What would the world be like if everyone was mildly autistic?

That quote is over the top. Given the imbalance between groups it is also embarrassing to read.

Which autism? There are four: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.08.15.24312078v...

My impression is this article and research that generalizes across the entire spectrum is not very useful.