Autism and wokeness: social justice ideology, pecking order

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Dearest Spectrumy Brethren!
My heart swells with the amorphous hope that you may be able to help me compile resources for helping to outline the relationship between autism, bullying, the pecking order, and highly social environments such as intentional communities or social justice activism circles.
Neurotypical privilege is one way of talking about what I have experienced as Autistic Danger.
Not being able to lie, or even fib fluently creates constant opportunity for autties to be Pecked Down!
Neurotypical minds only value truth when it is convenient, or in retrospect, when the truth becomes mainstream social "reality".
Speaking truth in a social group incites witch trial mode, "mob 'justice'". It is their nature to Peck Peck Peck! Strut Strut Strut!
I find myself often at the front edge of Truthspeaking into the void of instinct-driven human flocks.
I am willing to die for this, I cannot be other than what I am. And yet, there don't seem to be sufficient resources out there for the many, many people I observe along the way who probably are high functioning undiagnosed and who struggle endlessly to understand why honesty and goodwill isn't working in their lives. I see them shuffling through the flocks [of human communities] trying not to excite the roosters: *don't make eye contact* *stay in your safe corner*.
Thank you for letting me speak here.
Dayna

I found this the salon article re: "not rainmain" (but can't post link here because I am a newbie poster)

What else is out there?

I was referring to an article I saw reposted here called "i-have-autism-and-im-not-rain-man-and-im-not-abnormal-either"

Do you mean this article?

I have autism and I'm not "Rain Man" — and I'm not abnormal, either by Matthew Rozsa, March 15, 2017.

I does seem to be where many peoples minds go when they hear the word "autism"