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If we stick to DSM5 it’s baked into the definition that we have significant problems, so “disorder” fits.

But that ignores or falsely pathologies potentially positive traits. & drives an arbitrary wedge between those currently getting by, and those currently struggling.

I prefer a wide view of autism as a spiky cognitive profile with a mixed & changeable bag of traits: good, bad or simply different. “Condition” works for that as it’s neutral as to joy/pain.