I must be a joke

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I received a county property tax assessment for my home in the mail, with it there was a flyer about a property tax relief program. It listed some conditions, for some of which I could qualify, such as the total household income. The flyer didn't make it clear if it's any or all of the conditions.

I brought the letter with me when I visited my parents one evening as they need my help with the online business. I handed the flyer to my dad and asked what he thought. He looked at it and sarcastically exclaimed "of course you're permanently disabled!" and laughed.

We don't talk about autism and I refuse to think of myself as disabled.

No one needs his feelings hurt when he’s just asking for advice.

Tell him autism is predominantly hereditary.
Take a picture when you tell him that.
I'd like to see his face.

My parents are very aware of everything not right with me but they maintain a policy of not discussing anything I'm not officially diagnosed with.

In US a diagnosis is difficult to obtain, especially as an adult, prohibitively expensive, and at level 1 you are not getting any benefits. At this point for me there is no motivation to get it anymore.

It doesn't change the fact he probably is the cause of your being "permanently disabled".

Is your father a bastardo, or just callus?

Callous.

Both of my parents have some traits, but neither had a social impairment when they were young. My dad is still tight with several of his friends from school and from college.

Counting on dad's side I'm the 4th generation engineer, so you get the idea.