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My parents used to be the kind of people who thought autism == rain man, which is funny because my dad often displays some very aggressively autistic behavior (you know, things like inflexible routines, food and texture aversions, gross misunderstandings of social cues which have led him to quite a few actual fights, draconian rule following and imposing, an obsession with guns, yadda yadda) which he thinks is perfectly normal and “how things should be”, because “that’s how he was raised and is therefore good”, according to him.
And, obviously, when some of those behaviors crossed over to me, he thought it was perfectly normal as well lmao
(I say used to because I’ve been trying to educate them a bit but man is progress slow)
I’m married to an autistic guy and both our kids are too, they’re definitely different in lots of ways but they’re also very normal in just as many ways and it really throws people off that yes autistic people are actually just normal people who might need a little more time to do something or a more clarification or different instructions, they’re not all inherently any particular way that your average person can just recognize. The public understanding of autism seems to be based almost purely on biases and assumptions, heuristics… which is ironic