I think you are being overly cynical.<p>It&#x27;s a label that helps people. I&#x27;m one of those people. I spent so much of my youth wondering what was so innately wrong with me that my peers would take every opportunity to mock my speech, my hobbies, my mannerisms, my preferences in food, clothes, etc. I became severely depressed during high school and nearly killed myself. I felt incredibly broken, confused, and separated from my peers in every way.<p>My parents weren&#x27;t the type to believe in stuff like ADHD or Autism spectrum stuff, so the fact that I was getting great grades&#x2F;test scores&#x2F;had a few close nerd friends seemed to indicate I was just bookish and shy. Teachers were the same way, nothing wrong with the quiet kid.<p>When I finally had a psychologist tell me about Asperger&#x27;s, and I went to some of the online communities and read about all of the other people with such similar experiences, it really helped. I wasn&#x27;t so broken anymore, I was just different, and a lot of other people are different in the same way. By that time, I was too old to get much help out of an official diagnosis, but just being able to put a label on it gave me some peace. Even though I am well-adjusted, employed, and otherwise able to blend in and function to a point that it&#x27;s mostly irrelevant, knowing about it and having a community helped me get there. I don&#x27;t see why it&#x27;s so terrible to have autism be a more inclusive label if it helps people.