Website to Help Parents Understand Autism - Help?

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I need your help! My younger sister has Asperger's, and throughout her life we've consistently run into issues with people not understanding what that entails and the resulting problems. Recently we had two particularly large issues - one with her roommate at college and one with our new stepfather. Neither of them knew/know anything about autism, except for some vague idea of social skills issues, and more understanding would have smoothed relationships all around. I realized that my family can't be the only one with this issue, so I made a website, autismspectrumexplained.weebly.com/, aimed at taking someone from 0 to 60 (with spots for someone with more background to jump in) with regards to understanding autism, what it really means in real life, the gifts people with autism can have, separating fact from fiction, and more. It skews higher functioning just because that's what my sister is, but my hope is that it can help others, too.

The thing is, I know the website could be better and I don't want to really start promoting it until I've gotten feedback on it. My worst nightmare is to promote this thing and actually have written something that wasn't what I intended to say, find out that I'm misrepresenting people on the spectrum/associated organizations, etc.

That's why I need your help! If you guys could check out the website and answer a few questions for me (or just give general feedback; the questions are for guidance if you need it, they aren't required and you can answer as many or as few of them as you want), I would super greatly appreciate it!

1. Would this website have helped you understand autism when your loved one was first diagnosed? Why or why not?

2. Are there any additional topics that would have helped you understand autism/helped friends and family members understand it (and that can add to the website)?

3. Is there anything in the website that you really disagree with/think I messed up on?

4. Do you think the website could be helpful for understanding people on all ends of the spectrum, or just high functioning? If the latter, advice on how to remedy this problem would be greatly appreciated.

5. Would you give this website to friends/family to help them understand autism? Why or why not?

In addition, suggestions as to format are also appreciated.

Any and all advice is helpful! Thanks so much!

I know I am not really answering any of your questions but I just wanted to point out that you describe Michael Burry as "A hedge fun manager".
As much as it amused me,I think it should be corrected.

It looks pretty good to me

One thing I'd like to see added is visibility and/or energy. I'm one of the - according to some - lucky few who gets by mostly unnoticed. Yes that means I have the act down to a tee, I can even ace the mind in the eyes test.
However, this will always be an analysis rather than an instinctive reaction, and thus both slower (which I cover up with a lot of 'uhuh, totally!' while really having no clue what is going on) AND more energy consuming. The latter is a severely underrated problem.