BTW, the reason I’m still “not sure where to stand” after all that is that I’ve also seen some high-functioning adult autism advocates behave completely unreasonably. There was an incident a year or two back where someone had scheduled a small panel at a sci-fi con to talk about issues related to her autistic child. The local autism community got wind that there was a panel without without an adult autistic present, complained to the con-com, got the panel removed from the schedule; and then, when the lady unofficially met with a few people in the same room to discuss autistic parenting, they threw an absolute raging hissy-fit and tried to get her banned from all local cons for life. Total facepalm moment. So, sadly, I feel like I have to take a lot of my fellow adult autism advocates with a grain of salt these days. 
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