That's fairly typical, from what I understand of it.
My youngest has a masters in special ed. Her current classes (she has a morning and an afternoon class) include typical kids and kids with various issues including autism spectrum disorders. She said so far she has not had a child with Asperger's though. She said it's probably because they tend to be higher functioning and although they might benefit from extra services typically they do not require them.
This is interesting:
"The teen, who has spoken openly about her Asperger’s diagnosis, faced some mockery and personal attacks in response to her speech. One Fox News guest called her “a mentally ill Swedish child,” prompting the network to apologize to Thunberg and denounce the remark as “disgraceful.”
"Fox News host Laura Ingraham later likened her to the children from the film adaptation of Stephen King’s “Children of the Corn.”"
[Now we know why our Reichwing friends here feel emboldened to attack a kid over something she was born with. Here's how Greta thinks of it:]
"In a recent interview with “CBS This Morning,” Thunberg said that bluntly speaking truth to power and shaming “those who need shaming” had helped drive home her climate-change message. Another asset, she said, was her neurological diagnosis. “I have Asperger’s, I’m on the autism spectrum, so I don’t really care about social codes that way,” she said.
"She spoke to the perks of neurodiversity, or the idea that neurological differences are human variations rather than diseases to be cured. “That makes you different; that makes you think differently,” Thunberg said. “Especially in such a big crisis like this one, we need to think outside the box, we need to think outside our current system, we need people who think outside the box and who aren’t like everyone else.”"
[The rest of the article is also very interesting and discusses how more and more employers are accepting of ppl with autism because of their unique abilities.]
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/g...hire-people-on-the-autism-spectrum-2019-09-25