The thing is, there actually doesn't exist such a concept. With autism, it is what it is, there is no "stepping in" and "helping". There is nothing "wrong" in the first place. Trying to change autistic to neurotypical is not an "improvement", and besides, it will never happen.

People misunderstand autism completely. It's not a "disorder" (despite it being defined as one in it's name). It's simply a deviation from the "norm".

There is an assumption, that "norm" is automatically "correct" and a deviation from that is some kind of error that needs to be "fixed". If you view autism that way, you'll never ever be able to truly understand it for what it is.

There was a person once who described it very well in my opinion, it's like having another operating system on a computer:

Normal/neurotypical - Windows
Autism - Mac

I find that analogy very illustrative in trying to explain it to someone.