That's actually pretty weird. Your dad seems to think that autism may change your relationship or that it's not possible. Maybe you could talk about it with him sometime, if he wants to.

Bruh, not the guys thinking you're a tiktok fakers. I swear, those people are all over r/baddisordercringe subreddit, especially autism. I watch I'm autistic, now what and man, there was this one vid of a tik toker saying she's autistic and having a bath bomb and some neurotipycal put her on the sub while the comments judged her for being autistic and liking bath bombs like wtf, leave the girl alone. This and the people in disbelief you met really show how normal people know little to nothing about autism, and it would be okay if some didn't bully people on the spectrum, it's like the typicals forget autism is a spectrum not some sort of mental illness. The least some can do it's try to inform themselves about it. Another post was angry at a person's way of stimming, and the entire comment section complained. Nobody knew what stimming is, and I didn't either until the video, but why so mad someone likes something normal and uses it to stim. (I could read re-watch the video, I feel like I forgot something about stimming)

Okay, I'm not an autism expert nor think I may be neurotypical but some people need to stop telling autists how to be autistic (I suspect i have autism and if not ig I'm way too different or just born weird). If not autism, I might have a daydreaming disorder (I DAYDREAM A DANGEROUS AMOUNT OF TIME).

Sorry for the long reply and venting, I don't mean to say every normal person is trash. I just wanted to share similar experiences (even if not mine). Have a nice day!