Should intervention for ASD be centred on ‘normalcy’ or ‘enjoyment’?

I don’t believe that I want to flesh this description out too-much, because I don’t want to distract from peoples’ thoughts on the matter, I’m just interest to see want people subjectively or objectively think. 

What are the negatives of either? What are the positives of either? What is the community focus on?

I have been reading autism-literature, finding like-minded people, and talking to professionals for a while now. I still don’t really understand where I expect my diagnosis to take me, I don’t really know how to make my attempts at enjoyment or equalisation marketable. I don’t really think that everybody in society has the same goals when it comes to autism.

The one concrete thing that I do know, is that autism doesn’t have enough awareness, and that autism doesn’t have enough heads in its community. So I am only sure that we need more screening, we need to widen the bottom of the pyramid, but for what end ’normalcy’ or ‘enjoyment’ and why..?

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