Is Clark Kent a great representation of adult autism?

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Pretty accurate I'd say for the majority of autistic men without other comorbidities trying to blend in among allistics while a few of these "men of steel" care less what people think and are more like Superman.

Mmmh... I wouldn't label Clark Kent as Superman, he is his alter ego in fact Peter Parker is even more in the spectrum.
When we are masked those traits can not exist so I won't call it Superman... when he is doing Superman those problems don't exist and society is different.

I had talked here about but I think is like for an actor interprete a role.

Btw an example even Peter Parker is like Spiderman.

^You know that Clark Kent and Superman is the same person, right?

Here came a psychological point, when you act a role your brain do a weird stuff and you are no longer yourself.

No, he is Clark Kent acting as Superman... he isn't Clark Kent being Clark Kent.

They are different. It is called dissociative pattern.

Superman is an alien. Clark Kent is him disguised as a human being. It's the opposite situation compared to the earthlings that dress up as Batman, Spider Man or The Phantom.

Again you fall into a bad concept.
A) whole aliens are like him since it is an alien, like whole americans are like Trump because he is american;
B) it was an allegoric question, was clear it wasn't canon but as allegory;
C) he was grew as human, he thought to be human so interpreting Superman is interpreting an alien while he is a human because he is grew as an human;
D) he is an adoptive son, his parents are human, it is enuff to make him human not alien to me.

^Ok. I leave it at that.

I was just going to say he was from the Wrong Planet.
I thought is was humorous, but I'm not saying it is funny.

Actually, I think Christopher Reeves just played Clark as awkward, in contrast to Superman.
George Reeves did not play him as awkward. That is, he played him without awkwardness.
Kirk Alyn played him "straight," not unlike George Reeves. That's how I remember him, at least.
I cannot comment about the other portrayals of Clark Kent. I would have to watch the movies again.

There used to be a Canadian PSA that claimed Superman was created by a young man from Canada. And he had a friend named Lois, who just said "Nobody's going to read a comic strip about a strong man in tights, it'll never fly", and the young man said, "Fly, no... But he can leap over tall buildings". And later when I was watching an old public domain Max Fleischer Superman cartoon, I noticed Lois Lane looked like the Lois in the PSA which I thought was kind of neat.

Of course, Superman himself isn't Canadian or American. He's not even an Earthling. He's a space alien who just happens to come from a planet where everyone was nearly perfect... so naturally, the planet blew up.