Everything has to be a pathology because that requires more state intervention and more pharmacology. They were merely eccentric musical prodigies or scientific geniuses or gifted artists with personality quirks up until a few decades ago. Now it means more money and more control.
autism is not made-up and it was not invented by the pharma industry.
anyone who lives with an aspie recognizes others on the spectrum. it doesn’t make them unlovable, unloving, unproductive or anything else- but it does make them different, sometimes in difficult ways.
Imagine how differently things might have turned out if he was diagnosed as a "victim" in childhood and given medicine that inhibited his creativity. The world would have been denied some great music.