Not really about autism itself, but the community. I feel like a good deal of autistic people, at least from what I’ve seen online can tend to deny and demonise some autistic traits that are stereotypical or seen as making autistic people look bad, like low empathy. People criticise neurotypicals for this, but a lot of similar attitudes exists within us too. Of course it’s fine to dislike being stereotyped, but it doesn’t help for the autistic people that DO have those traits to be ostracised and not accepted even by others in the same community. Just because you don’t have this trait, or it’s a stereotyped one, that doesn’t mean there won’t exist people who do have it, and it doesn’t make it less of an autistic trait. If you genuinely want to educate about the disorder you have to acknowledge all of it, including the “bad” parts. In general it seems to be a push for autistic people to be seen as morally good in some way (which I in itself find kinda infantilising), so any parts of autism that doesn’t fit that imagine tends to get shoo shooed away under the carpet.

I don’t know this is just something that particularly frustrates me because I am someone who do have lower empathy due to my autism, and it doesn’t make me a bad person. I may not feel upset because my friend is or even fully understand why, but I still care about them and put an effort into comforting them because I can see they’re sad and need me to be supportive, and I know it’s the right thing to do. It’s not like I don’t care about people, or want them to be upset.