Except when it is. As an autistic adult, it's frustrating to me that high-functioning autistics and parents/caregivers of low-functioning autistics never seem

Except when it is. As an autistic adult, it's frustrating to me that high-functioning autistics and parents/caregivers of low-functioning autistics never seem to realize that the other kind exists. You wind up with people insisting that perfectly functional human beings need to be cured, which those same human beings insist that there's nothing wrong with a kid who can't speak or dress himself at age 10.