You’re article is very well written.

I want to start off saying I am autistic, diagnosed officially and everything. Furthermore I have had a career for the last 20 years working professionally with autistic students. Your article while making some good points, I find to be very ableist, judgmental, and ignorant. Autism manifests in a wide variety of ways. Many people experience it way more differently than you, and yea some of it consider it disabling. Yes I agree, much of the disability can and should
be removed culturally, and I wok everyday to do that in my classroom and is good p advocate that to the wold. But I personally have experienced symptoms, and many of my students also, that have nothing to do with social constructs. Not every autistics’s disability is a social construct. Maybe many parts are, but your autism is not everyone autism and many parents are dealing with situations you don’t understand, and you shame them.
Here’s an example. One of my many stims, I am not happy with. I have many stims, and I stim as I want, but this one particular stim actually self harms my body and has done permenant damage to my body. Yet I find it uncontrollable, it’s a stim I can’t control. This is a part f my autism and it has done damage t my body. It’s not a social construct.
I had a student once who stimmed so bad, he was unable to eat sometimes and at times had to be tube fed. He also was unable to drive, despite it being something he really wanted because he couldn’t guarantee he would be control the wheel at all. I would say needing to be tubed feed was a disability and not a social construct.
His parents fought real hard for him to get enough suppprt to be semi-independent. They are good people.