I have found it very interesting to read your perspective and there is much here i agree with. I certainly do not consider myself "better" than anyone else, and i do not think the world would be a better place if everyone were autistic. However, my dignosis has helped me. It has given context to my life and i look back at my younger self with more compassion, and am kinder to myself now. The best way i can describe it today (I shall probably think of a better way tomorrow) is to say that it feels as if i have been running a race all my life, and no matter how hard i tried, i could never manage to do better than last place. But now, i realise that I was running with an extra weight. So, it is not that i failed because i wasn't trying hard enough, it simply wasn't a level playing field and given the extra weight, i have run really well. Would i want to drop that extra weight now if i could? Well, no. Because it is what makes me, me. And i quite like me. Just the way i am. In kindness, A💚