It's nice to know I'm not the only one who thought they sounded like jerks. I mean they made it sound like they were raising funds to support people with alzheimers, or parkinsons.
Really... it's much closer to dyslexia.
It's a different configuration of the brain, not a neural disorder.
And how do you distinguish between the two, exactly?
Neurodiversity is great and all, but go take a look at something with severe autism, come back, and tell me that can't be construed as a disorder. Unless they're particularly high-functioning, odds are they'll have trouble performing even simple tasks.
Also, judging by the linked article, this is suffering from the conflation of autism spectrum disorders and "autism" proper. Whether qualitatively or simply a matter of degree, there is a huge difference between a guy with a case of mild asperger's and a guy with low-to-mid-functioning autism. Remember a while ago on these forums, when I was talking about how putting them all under the same term and treating them the same is good for nobody? This is why. Because when you make a video or otherwise speak ostensibly about "autism" (i.e. not simply "autism spectrum" or "asperger's"), people on the other side of the autistic spectrum will assume it applies to them too, and non-autistic people will assume they're talking about both sides of the spectrum. It's a complete mess, which is why multiple diagnoses exist and why the terminology should be specific.
This isn't to say the video in question is very tactful, but it's obvious that the people responding negatively to it aren't nearly the same kind of "autistic" as those the video is about.