Are leftists the biggest hypocrites towards autistic issues?

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In my experience of high level politicians
Individuals that are drawn to power who stay in politics for a long time, often become amoral and self serving.

Perhaps in their youth, some had noble intentions. But as they rose to the top, such noble intentions
got lost and replaced by greed, abuse of their own power & authority, perhaps in their fight to gain and maintain power from their opposing parties.

I am afraid i personally the political party system is one of the biggest flaws in the present political system in many countries of the world.

Systems where political parties will do anything and everything to undermine their opposition so as to boost their own careers, including underhanded criminal set ups, slander, industrial espionage, accepting funding and support from less than reputable backers. In short, the political party system does breed war of types.

I do not think that the present system is the only way to run a democratic political system.
I think that it is extremely wasteful for many highly paid people spend all their time fighting to gain the power.
Spending much money, time and effort in political assassination campaigns against their various members of the opposition, including people who are good, and policies that are useful.

In the dirty game of politics, bad underhanded politicians will do anything to win, including undermine a good policy.
In which case, money gets wasted, the people's money - not the money of some bent politicians who does such things
all so as to decrease the popularity of their opposition while increasing their own parities position, in hope that one day they will gain the position that they need in order to exploit the public spending, abuse the power that the position brings and enforce their moral values or lack of moral values that their party promotes, as well as save money for their peers and thus receive rewards indirectly.

All very bad in my opinion.

The following actually happened to me the other day. I am doing a very small research study on Astrology charts of people with diagnosed ASD and was asking some people on line if they would like to take part, but to do so they must have a diagnosis, because the study is on the dsm 5 criteria and, seeing as it is only me without much spare time on my hands, will need to keep the study's complexity as low as possible.

But this girl, who had already explained she identifies with 'neurodiverse' in a different thread basically said she felt uncomfortable with my study because it is harmful towards the principles of the neurodiverse community.

Basically, she was diagnosed ADHD yet identified as Autistic because she felt they were both the same thing and I was in the wrong for addressing one type of neurological disorder and not another. I saw on her profile she had the whole LGBT thing going on, which I guess you might associate with left (or whatever).

Anyway, it is possible (yet not necessarily so) that she knew full well of my diagnosis because I had already mentioned it, yet she explicitly asked me, 'are you neurodiverse or neurotypical'? Now this question did nothing but confuse me because,

a) I hadn't really familiarised myself with the whole concept of neurodiversity yet, but I did have a funny feeling it was more of a social concept than a medical one so, as you might understand, having Aspergers, I simply don't tend to socially 'identify' with anything. I tend to think more scientifically.

b) I just couldn't figure out how to answer, given that she gave me two options. I thought about saying a simple, 'no', but didn't want to risk sounding cocky.

Anyway, I just ended up stating that I wanted to stick to the topic and to let me know if she wants to take part. (To be fair I wasn't aware of her diagnosis at this point but had a hunch she wasn't autistic because of her social behaviour - i figured this out later).

So she further sprung a couple of her beliefs on me, which I thought weren't really related to the topic and I thanked her for her input but unfortunately, didn't have an hour to dedicate to explaining myself to someone who wasn't really into what I was doing, but this must have pissed her off because she went on a rant and basically verbally abused me, while trying to get others on board to say how what I was doing was the worst thing ever blah blah blah.

She even went out of her way and found my business page to leave a negative recommendation, saying I was exploiting autistic people to use their data, without explicit consent from the people themselves, while refusing to disclose my own neurodiversity. These are simply lies because I am seeking this consent and I had already disclosed my condition. Not only this, but I am taking email addresses of all participants so I can send them more information about myself and the progress with results of the study.

I just couldn't believe it. Still in a bit of shock about it to be honest.

Anyway I did a bit of reading since and it turns out that neurodiversity is a social construct, just as I had suspected, yet it is more to do with seeking equality for people with neurological problems in general, rather than blending them all together and trying to eradicate the diagnoses of specific conditions so that those who have problems identifying with their conditions don't have to.