Great article. Interestingly, I'd suggest the introductory material has a subtle empathy gap that can be summarised with the "Regardless of how careful we are to frame what we say, there is a strong chance that it will be misinterpreted" comment.

That applies to everyone. It is a rare and skillfull person who can get a new point into a conversation. Spend any time at all watching how political debates evolve and it is quite clear that pushing a conversation from equilibrium to equilibrium is remarkably challenging to do and often comes under heavy social attack. There are also hints coming out of the world of the therapists where there are a stunning number of people who don't know how to express their thoughts to save themselves.

At a personal level the standard neurotypical strategy is not to say anything new, or anything that hasn't been pre-vetted by something else with higher status. So the problem autistic people tend to run into is that they aren't repeating what someone influential said in a similar context and that is an inherently high-risk strategy. Careful framing can't possibly lead to a safety. Autistic people may act in socially inappropriate ways, but the mistake is to assume other people are good communicators. They aren't, they are subtly limited by fairly strict guiderails and can't express/process a lot of concepts independently from the herd.