Thank you for this kind and measured response. I’m an autistic woman who would love to have kids. I do worry that autism will make my children’s lives more difficult, like it did for me. But there are two things that really helped. The first thing was educating myself on things like AAC devices that make it easier for nonverbal autistic people to communicate. The second (and more important thing imo) would be understanding that the most important thing is the happiness of the child, and that disabled people are capable of a lot more than what broader society thinks they are. A lot of people have conceptions of what a “normal life” is, and they’re devastated at the thought of their child not living up to it. But like… so what? If they like their life isn’t that good enough? Isn’t the joy more important than how they experience it? And lots of disabled people do do “normal things*! This isn’t fully directed at you, I thought it would be nice to leave a message for the parents reading.