I hadn't seen that before, but it really doesn't surprise me that people view us differently when the only point of reference they have is that of the "screaming ret*d" scene in Rainman, which was of course written by an NT and made it perfectly normal for the good looking Cruise to want to take the autistic brothers money, even making it seem like it was somehow rightfully his.
How many times have you actually seen a film of an autistic person, once or twice?