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

Dating back to Hume, the problem has always involved interrogating one's own Bias and Associations / Affiliations. So how to teach this, but perhaps there have been periods of time where thoughtful or critical thought was better rewarded on a larger scale.

From a philosophical stand point there are two types of Freedom: Freedom From and Freedom To. Most people have rights which grant them a Freedom From (oppression, false accusation, and so on), but very few have Freedom To.  From what I can assess, Autistics in ratio, don't appear to have either, so on a large scale, I believe changing the narrative around Empathy to include distinguishing it from Sympathy and Compassion, to always speak of it as Cognitive or Emotional Empathy and to continually reinforce that Most people want a sort of Telepathy, not Empathy and want it complete with an unspoken expected response, is a start at addressing the issue of who should be allowed Freedom From. 

We have entered and era where just considering someone Right-Brained is not enough and doesn't cover the expectation that everyone should be able to be socialised to the masses. Nor does it suit the masses who are and can be hypnotised to dangerous extremes to not have safeguards with in social groups as an evolutionary mechanism. 

Just a few absurdities to note. This same era is ruthless against ADHD'rs who need a different type of education with more room to move and Dyslexics who need to be allowed to convey understanding without forced to Essay writing. And Autistics who need to be allowed far more time in a library than their peers. 

Sure, life isn't a walk in the park, but it also shouldn't feel like a prison sentence. 

Dating back to Hume, the problem has always involved interrogating one's own Bias and Associations / Affiliations. So how to teach this, but perhaps there have been periods of time where thoughtful or critical thought was better rewarded on a larger scale.

From a philosophical stand point there are two types of Freedom: Freedom From and Freedom To. Most people have rights which grant them a Freedom From (oppression, false accusation, and so on), but very few have Freedom To.  From what I can assess, Autistics in ratio, don't appear to have either, so on a large scale, I believe changing the narrative around Empathy to include distinguishing it from Sympathy and Compassion, to always speak of it as Cognitive or Emotional Empathy and to continually reinforce that Most people want a sort of Telepathy, not Empathy and want it complete with an unspoken expected response, is a start at addressing the issue of who should be allowed Freedom From. 

We have entered and era where just considering someone Right-Brained is not enough and doesn't cover the expectation that everyone should be able to be socialised to the masses. Nor does it suit the masses who are and can be hypnotised to dangerous extremes to not have safeguards with in social groups as an evolutionary mechanism. 

Just a few absurdities to note. This same era is ruthless against ADHD'rs who need a different type of education with more room to move and Dyslexics who need to be allowed to convey understanding without forced to Essay writing. And Autistics who need to be allowed far more time in a library than their peers. 

Sure, life isn't a walk in the park, but it also shouldn't feel like a prison sentence. 

That is a very-interesting rabbit-hole, with regards to the empathy-sympathy issue, I believe that most-people do-not distinguish between the two.

I have talked to a few-people now regarding autism being-diagnosed, I have also talked to a vast-swathe of people regarding autism being-undiagnosed. I found found that the more-conscientious the person that you are talking to, the greater the moralistic stance against autists, and the greater the conflation of Socio-Emotive Communicative (SEC) impairment with not-being-able to feel, which is again conflated with ‘evil’.

Most do-not consider that there are two-sides to SEC impairment, first is that one can appear cold and the other is that one can be more-exploitable. In society it would appear that there is an additional weight and burden, that neurotypicals place on autists, that make it harder to adjust over-time. So not only are autistic-people impaired but they are also ostracised for that impairment.

This again reinforces the point that to award autistic-people with support to reach equal-opportunity is not enough, because once autists are equal at the starting-line, they are continually pushed-back and burdened with alienations that are in-excess of the burden that neurotypicals typically-carry.