Too Many Former Sorority Girl Types Working With AS People?

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It seems like too many people trained to work with autistic people are stereotypically ditzy upper middle class conventionally attractive neurotypical ex-sorority child development major types, who are too neurotypical and too dim or shallow to really understand autistic people.

They're the kind of girls who probably rejected a lot of nerdy and borderline autistic guys their whole life while dating and marrying similarly neurotypical and attractive "hunks" (as Dr. Steve Brule would call them), but yet something (probably the drive for money) draws them to working with the same people they want nothing to do with as romantic partners or even friends. Sadly, too many of these ditzy neurotypical women are obtaining such jobs they are woefully underqualified for due to their superficial physical attractiveness and social graces (which they were born with), while intelligent and qualified autistic people such as myself and many others remain in the unemployment line because after one minute (at the most) in any interview, the superficial interviewer thinks "s/he's too 'weird/nervous/shy/unattractive/otherwise socially undesirable" regardless of relevant skills or experience.

And I expect this forum post to attract another flock of NT sympathizers who will accuse me of having an "us vs. them" mentality or "being in the victim mode" while ignoring my points entirely.

If you read WP for a long time, it becomes very clear from the many reports posted that professional incompetents of both sexes abound in diagnosis, therapy, treatment etc, so why target only one subgroup of females? I sincerely hope you don't assume that all the males in those fields are automatically competent because they are male. Let's talk about incompetence of people working with AS generally in this thread. It's a serious issue and a worthy topic, rarely posted about as a separate topic and so that part of your topic seems potentially very useful.

I remember a "licensed ABA therapist" reported here last year for advising parents that bullying was good for AS children. Still practising and spreading dangerous nonsense probably.