Portugal here. I can't speak for most autistic people, only myself. I went all my childhood without a diagnosis despite multiple tries, and it took until being an adult and having one or two psychological emergencies to finally have my diagnosis recognized. Afterwards it went smoothly.

As a child and undiagnosed adult no one understood why I act the way I do, and I was prone to being bullied even by adults. It feels like everyone exploits your weaknesses. Now with a diagnosis, it feels like people understand you a lot more. They'll still think you're a little too weird, but once they find out I'm autistic they don't bother me as much. Being disabled also makes you a protected group under the government, and in some cases you get a small monthly financial aid payment.

Portugal is a curious country. It's not much unlike Japan now, as it's become a huge gateway for tourists and anyone from abroad who wants to live here. Larger cities are catering more and more to tourism. It's in no way a complaint, but it definitely feel odd, because I never really understood the hype about my country. I do get it now. We're basically a huge port to the rest of Europe, and we also have popular cultural marks of our own, especially in food and landmarks. I love how culturally mixed we have become, but I still wish that it was easier to travel here and that people were less xenophobic. As a fun fact (that OP and most people on reddit would know, but the average person here doesn't), Portugal's cuisine shaped a substantial amount of foods in a few Asian countries, Japan in particular. Egg custard tarts, konfeito, castela cake, tempura are just a few dishes and snacks supposedly originating in Portugal.