Yeah, autism is a neurodevelopmental disorder. An autistic brain is a healthy autistic brain, not a sick typical one. Kind of the way a person with Down syndrome has a healthy brain, despite their intellectual disability, because what's different about them is that their brain just developed differently. Autism's like that. So are learning disabilities, for that matter, and many other life-long, stable disorders. I wish people would remember that, because it is crucial to how these disorders are managed: Instead of trying to make them vanish, it is prudent to teach the person to compensate for them, to live with them instead of trying to push them away.