>On one extreme, we have people thinking they're autistic when they're actually just awkward and inexperienced in life
And you know that they're "just" the latter, and not autistic, because? They don't look like the Rain man?
And you know that they're "just" the latter, and not autistic, because? They don't look like the Rain man?
The person who possibly is on the lightest side of the autism spectrum has so little in common with the other end that it feels incorrect to label them as the same condition.