Everyone on my father's side of the family with a Y chromosome is dyslexic.

Almost everyone without a Y chromosome is autistic with dyspraxia and/or hyperlexia.

I know multiple very mildly autistic people who have more severely autistic children.

It might not always be genetic, but genetics are the only explanation for my family.

As for it not being curable. I *can't change who I am*. I can change my behaviors, which makes everything double the effort...the effort of doing the task AND the effort of doing it like Society Says. When I worked 8 hours a day in an office I came home too exhausted to do anything else because of the extra effort of having to do everything *as a different person*.

Also?

I don't want to be cured.

I don't have autism.

I am autistic.

I am autistic because it is in my genes, not because of environmental factors (btw, I never got the MMR vaccine, it wasn't approved in the UK when I was the age for it). Not because of "clinically observed behaviors" which implies to me that you think we are doing it on purpose.

I am not broken and I do not need to be fixed.

Oh, and many of us want the Asperger's term to be retired.

Hans Asperger was, as it turns out, a eugenicist. He may not actually have been a Nazi, but was certainly volkisch (believed in the ethnic superiority of Germanic people). He cooperated in forced sterilization and the murder of children.

You need to talk to more autistic people, I think, and understand what is going on from the inside.

It's not "behaviors," it's literal difference.

https://molecularautism.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13229-018-0208-6