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Nowhere does OP say anything to even indicate that one is superior to the other (nor to blame for anything), they're just pointing out they're different, a conclusion you admit to coming to yourself.
I'm honestly struggling to see where you folks are getting all this subtext from, but also why your instinct is to stand up for NT's, who, lets be serious here for a second, are at worst being blamed of not willing to make any effort to understand us, which is not only indisputable truth but also worlds apart from how ableist society actually harms us, so it's not like they even need any defending (and if they did, we all know they are more than capable of defending themselves, especially against such "brutal" "attacks"). Never mind that pointing to division and oppression we face is not the same as creating it.
Seriously, some of the comments here, in our own space, are mind boggling to me, it's like why won't somebody think of the neurotypicals?!, when literally everyone does, all of the time. Prioritise yourself for once, ableist society won't. Some here really would benefit from reading up on internalised - ableism (those are each a separate link).
I am 1000% with you. Autism includes qualities and quirks, some of which have been empirically proven to be very much inhibited versus NTs, some of which have been empirically proven to very much surpass NT abilities. Being balanced about this information (e.g. celebrating what advantages do exist) isn't supremacist in nature, it is being correct in nature actually. There is nothing divisive about that.
It's like that whole implicit phantom at the end of the phrase 'Black Lives Matter'. For one person it's Black Lives Matter (Too) but for some other person, for some reason they assume its Black Lives Matter (The Most/More Than Others). The antagonistic autocomplete there is jumping the gun with one's presumptions about what the messaging is centered on, usually because of their own negative expectations and baseline.
"I can do something NT people can't do and it's interesting to me that specific thing is called disordered for me in this instance" versus "LMAOOO NT PEOPLE CANT COMMUNICATE WITH US LIKE WE CAN, ARE THEY EVEN GOOD FOR ANYTHING??"
It's like people in this thread some how only extrapolated that second tone. A little bit of irony that this whole thing is about communication difficulties.