The specific questions asked were "what are the odds of that?" and "is there a genetic component?"

The answer to the latter is "yes", which although unquantified in the responses, at least intuitively changes baserate assumptions.

I'm not sure how one draws a normative assertion out of the questions, implied or otherwise.

I think he's just probing the improbability of this scenario absent a genetic component (which wouldn't be surprising to me if there was - is it asserted that autism is non-genetic?)

I mean, I'm autistic and will adopt instead of having biological children for that very reason. I'm high functioning and still had a cursed childhood owing to it. I wouldn't roll the dice on bestowing that on anybody, let alone my kin. I realize that's a pretty hot take to many people but as someone that dealt with the best-case scenario of the disorder, this isn't something any kid should have to deal with.