Since I'm an adult on disability and would probably be even without autism, I'm given a bigger choice in how I socialize. I function better than when I was a kid in school. I think basically I am the same, but the demands on me have changed.

That makes me think of the older generation men in my family. Some have autistic traits and they made it fine. Why? They didn't need to learn messy things like cleaning and cooking, their wives did that, they didn't need to really raise kids, same there... They only needed to learn their line of work and the jobs back then were plentiful and usually not complicated. It was rather requested that you were calm and somewhat withdrawn, loud and overly sociable people were frowned upon since they "lacked self control". That said, labor was of course often dreadfully harsh. But probably much more autism friendly than today where chaos, multitasking and socializing is the norm.

Now I'm glad life isn't that unequal anymore, still it hints to that issues are not solely within ourselves.