Okay but have you considered that people who seem like fully functional adults can also have autism and that they are fully functional by finding coping mechani

Okay but have you considered that people who seem like fully functional adults can also have autism and that they are fully functional by finding coping mechanisms to work with their autism? That is a thing that happens. To assume you know better than someone about their own mental scape because they 'seem fully functional' to you seems like a position without actually believing or listening to other people's experiences.