That's what these people don't get, is that learning how to function isn't discriminatory. It's not bigoted to say someone's low-functioning, or to prioritize functioning in helping autistic people learn to exist with their disability. This mindset bled back into the professional sphere, and now you can't use "functioning" labels anymore. Of course, "ASD level 1" is the same as "high-functioning asperger's syndrome," we just renamed it something more pleasant because it makes people uncomfortable to face the truth otherwise (see: George Carlin's bit about PTSD.)
The truth here being that sometimes people can't function. Some can, some can't, but covering something up with clinical language and cutesy UwU fanart doesn't change reality. Stimming isn't normal, infodumping isn't normal, melting down isn't normal. Being disabled isn't normal. Shit doesn't need to be "normalized," it just needs to be acknowledged the same as a physical disability and the people allowed to live their lives as best they can. This weird "highlight the disability and pretend it's adorable" crap doesn't help. Pretending my disability isn't a disability doesn't make me feel better about it. Lumping me in with people who are obviously more disabled than me under the guise of being progressive is insulting. Drawing fanart of anime characters flapping their wrists and eating their necklace doesn't make me feel seen or acknowledged. You know what kind of art would make me feel better about being autistic? Literally anything else.
What I find the funniest is when a disabled person's stim isn't just cutesy wrist-flapping, when they start moaning and making guttural sounds, when their tics are erratic and make them hurt themselves, when they get overwhelmed and lash out, when their special interest is gross or obscene, when someone obviously low-functioning makes people uncomfortable and can't be told to stop because they don't understand what they're doing, because they can't, because their brain does not work right, these SJW types show their true colors and start acting like the ableist bastards they rail against the other 90% of the time. But hey, how better to know what your supposed enemy thinks than to be the enemy all along?