that’s a very broad statement that i don’t think is really accurate, there’s a lot of overlap and the same symptoms can present for different underlying reasons.

the more troublesome aspects of autism are not really inherent personality traits, my inability to ignore sounds isn’t a part of my identity, and that’s the kind of thing i want to just turn off for most of the working day. It can be useful, i’ll find important details blitheringly obvious while everyone else has no clue they exist at all, but most of the time in modern society it’s just exhausting to live with.

like, when i’m able to perform the coping strategies i’ve developed throughout my life i don’t really behave very autistically as such, instead i’m just a slightly weird guy who goes barefoot.
But if i’m prevented from using the coping strategies and forced to experience unpleasant things that stress me out, i start behaving more and more traditionally autistic as the stress grows.

the autistic traits that are part of my identity is stuff like the things i find interesting, being unable to turn off my empathy, my emotions working a bit differently than they do for other people, etc… That’s the stuff i wouldn’t want to turn off.