Hey so I'm not the guy who was yelling at you but I felt a similar way about the ad. It makes me feel that people think I'm not capable. I'm perfectly capable. I take care of myself, I pay my taxes, and I follow the local social conventions when they align with my humanist principles. No one knows I'm autistic unless I tell them, and I tell them specifically to warn them that I might ramble about some topic they're not interested in and they should let me know because I'm not interested in boring them.

However, lately, (ever since autism became "vogue"), I've stopped bothering to tell people, because when I tell people they treat me differently. They just let me bore them, as if I'm some broken thing who needs to be coddled. It makes me feel like a tyrant that they're too afraid to criticize.

Just to preface, I noticed the follow paragraph is using "you" extensively and sloppily so please don't take it like I'm targetting you specifically here. This is just a hypothetical and I'm a bit too high to re-write it more abstract

I don't need your patience, I need you to tell me how you feel because I can't always tell, especially when you're trying really hard to be polite because you think I'll have a temper tantrum. I won't, even though from my perspective you're being rude for coddling me and I'm being rude for boring you. But I've learned that's not productive and if we aren't having a conversation we're both interested in then I don't see the point in having it.

I used to be able to have good conversations with people under those terms. Now I have to keep my mask up all the time, and make polite WASPish small talk that I don't really care about, and I have no idea if the people I meet actually like me because they only ever meet my mask. It's a shitty feeling, not knowing if people actually like you.

However, I'm keeping in mind that not everyone is like me and some people do need some help, some patience, and maybe they need the awareness more than I do. This ad isn't harming me nearly as much as it might help others, or at least I'm better equipped for the consequences than they are, so my ethics dictate I should just take this one on the chin for now.