The typical method is short term alcohol abuse. Joking/not joking. The effect is mixed. Pruning may occur. Autism incurable.
There are ideologues who like to police others in every divergent group that falls in a normative IQ range. Try going to a deaf sub and happily announcing your pending cochlear implants (don't do this).
One might imagine how this may be worse in the autism group.
Heck, observe how politically oriented "totally normal" types at Psychology Today pretend to lecture the autism community on the only acceptable way to think of themselves. They're obsessed with the topic, and it'll change only every few years if lucky.
The fundamental idea at work here is "If I can't be fixed, then I can fix everyone else to be like me, thereby making what I am be considered "fixed"" or "If I can't be fixed, I need to change the definition of working"
A person ultimately has two options. He can either conform his mind to reality, or reality to his mind. The first leads to truth, the second leads to rationalization, delusion, and insanity.
Humility favors the first. Pride favors the second.
As Satan famously says in "Paradise Lost", "The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven." It's not an accident Milton puts those words in the lips of that particular character.
There are ideologues who like to police others in every divergent group that falls in a normative IQ range. Try going to a deaf sub and happily announcing your pending cochlear implants (don't do this).
One might imagine how this may be worse in the autism group.
Heck, observe how politically oriented "totally normal" types at Psychology Today pretend to lecture the autism community on the only acceptable way to think of themselves. They're obsessed with the topic, and it'll change only every few years if lucky.