Plus, instead of accepting autistic behaviors as quirks, we often try to psychologically beat it out of them (ABA therapy). This of course tends to make things

Plus, instead of accepting autistic behaviors as quirks, we often try to psychologically beat it out of them (ABA therapy). This of course tends to make things worse rather than better, and you end up with a lot of autistic people who have two modes: pretending their best to be "normal", and complete meltdown when that fails.