The cure shouldn't just be up to the kids, but to the invisible caregivers who give up way more than average parents.
Here is a list of things that could also be done:
- Offer better protection to parents of autistic children in relation to work
- Stop trying to "normalise" autistic children in the school system, which leads to severe stress in the children
- Provide after-school activities and safe-spaces for autistic children to process and decompress
Anecdotally I have yet to meet any parents of autistic people who fit the narrative you provide. I have however met plenty of parents of neurotypical children who do
If a religious parent becomes sad and divorced because his child came out as gay, should conversion therapy be prescribed just so the parent can stay happily married?
Caveat being, I would have to see how it impacted the rest of his personality.
We also have parents who believe in "junk science" like "conversion therapy" or "vaccine avoidance".
It's not even the slightest of stretches to imagine that a child with a mild case of high-functioning autism might still get this drug because their parents don't believe in such silly terms as "neurodivergence", or worse they see it as a problem that needs fixing.