You have met/know of more autistic people than you would think. Some more well known people: - Dan Aykroyd - Anthony Hopkins - Satoshi Tajiri (creator of Pokém

You have met/know of more autistic people than you would think. Some more well known people: - Dan Aykroyd - Anthony Hopkins - Satoshi Tajiri (creator of Pokémon) - Greta Thunberg Particularly in this industry, autism, ADHD and other's are overrepresented compared to the typical population averages. I don't have autism myself (I do have ADHD), but I've met quite a few people who do. By the time they reach adulthood (and frankly a long time before), they're quite adept at masking [0]. Pretending to be a normal person to fit into a normal world. It affects people in different ways and to different severities, particularly in terms of what kinds of accomodations are required. But they can be some of the most intelligent, caring, hard working people you'll come across. It's problematic because while disabilities suck, people thrive in spite of them. Myself included. Even screening for Down syndrome feels quite problematic. Some of the best ways to help people with autism is accomodate them, let them live without masking the things that often put normal people off. Screening for Down syndrome or autism feels very close to screening for gender. It's an arbitrary choice made on the foundations of very shaky knowledge. That's not your fault, the general understanding of different neurological conditions is woeful and full of prejudice. There's legitimate reasons to terminate a pregnancy that are completely unrelated to trying to screen for a "normal" kid. But this study does not appear to be coming from a good place, or a place of genuine understanding. This snippet highlights it: > But “there’s a component of suggesting that autistic people don’t have empathy”, she says. “That has been extremely damaging and stigmatizing for autistic people, and is very much at odds with many autistic people’s lived experience, which is often a sort of uncontrollable excess of empathy.” From personal experience some autistic people have incredible capacity for empathy. [0] https://www.healthline.com/health/autism/autism-masking#definition https://www.healthline.com/health/autism/autism-masking#defi...