Over the past two decades, research on autism has expanded at an extraordinary pace. Studies on prevalence, lived experience, and intervention strategies now appear almost daily. Yet this increase in quantity has not always been matched by quality. Many papers recycle familiar themes: autistic people struggling in a “non-autistic world,” the “stigma of autism,” or the idea that camouflaging one’s autistic traits is uniquely damaging. While none of these claims are inherently