Autistic people have the same rights as everyone else. No one group of people should be denied rights becasue of how they are born, this would be discrimination and not acceptable in modern society.
An Autistic teen has the same rights as a neurotypical teen. Depending on where you live you also have disability rights, these are not extra rights but rights to protect disabled people.
Nothing is the same as cancer and autism, not even cancer and autism are the same. Some very offensive people liken autism to a disease such as cancer, this is ableist.
The eyes of a person with autism look the same as the eyes of other people.
The biggest problem that exists in America today about Autism is ignorance. A lot of people don't understand Autism or respect Autistic people, there is a lot of prejudice that results in Autistic people being bullied, murdered, abused, tortured, and denied their rights.
Yes, you capitalize autism when you are talking about Autistic people or Autistic communities - the same as you would with deaf verses Deaf person. Autism is an identity, capitalizing recognizes that.
Although Autism is rarer than Neurotypical neurology, Autism doesn't make people unique, no more than any other neurology. People are unique because people are unique: everyone is different, it's the same regardless of neurology.
An Autistic is a person with Autism.
Autism awareness is simply making people aware of autism and Autistic people. Unfortunately organizations such as Autism Speaks uses autism awareness to speak negatively about autism and Autistic people to increase their profits, thus there remains a lot of ignorance about autism.
It would not be ethical or legal to do anything TO people who have autism.
Yes people with autism do repeat them self's.
Rain Man from the same name movie has a severe autism.
Not all people with anger have autism but autistic people do tend to have anger issues