The boy whose brain could unlock autism

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Isn't there a line about not letting the inmates run the asylum?

More seriously, I gather that part of the problem is the remaining influence of behaviorism -- the view that internal experiences are worthless and so you only work with externally observable information (behavior). It's why the DSM rarely contains internal experiences, though even there they have to sometimes admit that internal states are important, i.e. PTSD, depression, etc.

It boggles my mind that such an idea was ever taken seriously, but it was apparently all the rage in (experimental) psychology in the not-too-distant-past. So, anyway, that's why there is no recent example of research psychologists listening to what anybody had to say about their internal experiences.

Oh but we're all suffering from the condition, how could we ever be objective or accurate in our observations? < note sarcasm.

Interesting. More research and empirical testing is necessary (this can take a long time). This theory explains a lot, but it does not explain other things (maybe because of the use of VAP to induce autism or due to not-considered co-occuring issues or selectively affected circuits [How? Why?]). Some links between physiology and behavior seems to be "forced".
Also I think it is very subjective.

Yes, some links were quite forced. Unlike most hypotheses of autism, this one is not based on research results in human brain/behavior/cognition, so I consider it speculative (more so than most), pending many more results. Also, I am pretty sure that it doesn't work for certain autism subgroups, like the social-emotional dunce one that I am in. My social traits are much bester understood through social cognition/motivation/reward theories and sensory traits through enhanced perceptual functioning. Intense world attempts to unify, but may have invented a bunch of stuff in the process, at least for my traits and whatever subgroup I am in.