Could Some of Us Be Accidentally Perpetuating Stereotypes?

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I don't have any trouble handling change.

I learnt to talk early and am very skilled at speaking.

When I pay attention, I can usually identify facial expressions.

However, I have no sense of time, have meltdowns and self-injure, am extremely disorganized, find it really hard to make friends, and a fire alarm leaves me a spaced out wreck for the rest of the day.

Just because someone doesn't have a specific issue doesn't mean they won't have other issues.

I believe that DGuru was asking whether if a person affirms others' stereotypes about AS even when not themself matching said stereotypes whether it perpetuates said stereotypes.

If not everyone in a group matches a given stereotype and the people in that group who don't match it don't point out that they don't match it, then yes, that makes the group seem more homogenous and it does perpetuate said stereotype.

This is the 'back away from the angry, potential serial killer stereotype' phenomenon

It's the 'wannabe NT' stereotype in action.

I want to perpetuate my stereotype and slam it in the face of everyone who ever hurt me in life.

Coming back to this, I think the problem isn't that anyone fits into stereotypes, but rather the idea that anyone is doing something wrong by being stereotypical. I've run into this in other contexts, and it's rather pointless.