If the past few years have taught me anything, you're high-functioning until you're not. Thrust a well-adjusted aspie in one environment (school) into another more hostile one (being an adult under neoliberal capitalism) and they can become almost as helpless and dysfunctional as their "low-functioning" peers, even if they still have greater cognitive capacity and know how to suppress the most ridiculous impulses.

Imagine spending the first two to three decades of your life playing by the rules and by the end you're barely better off than someone stuck in a group home, completely convinced you have no future to look forward to other than getting shuttled into the same dehumanizing group home/nursing home system when you reach old age, as punishment for not extracting enough value from other workers during your middle years through a savings/retirement account. Assuming you don't die early from accidentally pissing off the wrong powerful person or end up getting shuttled into a fucking concentration camp.

When you're high-functioning and shit's going well for you because you've got your foot in the door for some sort of sociopathic PMC career and your attitude is "I'm not like the other aspies/autists", that's like the autistic equivalent of Uncle Tom shit. Mimicking the behavior of the NTs and punching down to satisfy the sensibilities of people in some sort of vain bid for self-preservation, people who would not think twice about shoving you into the oven.