There's a small minority in the community who wish they could be cured. We'd all like acceptance and understanding. Most of us are interested in adaptive strategies. One adaptive strategy is to find a niche, which is another way of framing the use of special skills. Attitudes toward passing and toward being openly autistic vary, and for most of us depend on context. As I say, you'll get oriented. You don't have to adhere to any particular party line; that's not what I was warning you about: it's just that I know from long experience that the word disease would cause trouble, and I wanted to avoid that.