@Mewples : It wouldn't really make much difference if it was being used "as some pass" or not in practice.
On the whole it is one of those catch-22 situations. If I mention I'm Autistic, I get accused of using it as an excuse (because people are retarded). If I don't, people assume that I'm just putting on an act to troll them or whatever (because people are retarded). It doesn't really make much difference, so I just pick one and go with it... usually with more than a little facetiousness. Maintaining compulsion-induced conversations is a necessary chore, so one can't expect me to take it too seriously.
Oh... and...
Just because you have a child doesn’t mean much really
Because you're not deducing the necessary prerequisites of such a condition.
I'll explain, though I doubt you're interested...
#1. You called me kid.
#2. I'm used to dealing with mundanes enough to recognise a potential subtext here... since mundanes frequently obfuscate their intentions. That pattern being that they often use diminutive references to low age / immaturity as a kind of social value gambit. The human equivalent of raising their hackles to make themselves look bigger. It isn't guaranteed, but it happens frequently enough not to be casually dismissed.
#3. Be that as it may... it is incorrect. It is necessary for me to correct it.
#4. Another bothersome thing mundanes do is NOT take things at face value. As deranged as it is, common behaviour tends to indicate that, more often than not, they take straightforward denial as (counterintuitively) effective confirmation. As such, in the process of correcting your error, I have to express it in such a way as to leave little doubt as to the veracity of my statement.
#5. I opted to mention the fact that I have a teenage daughter because it is plainly a mutually exclusive condition with being a "kid". Plus I opted to include the details that are somewhat personally demeaning as I've seen several times that such embarassing or personally inconvenient details actually help in getting mundanes to believe that I actually mean what I say.
And if I was knowingly just dealing with another autistic person, all I'd have to say is "I'm not a kid", and it would suffice.
Funny that...
Anyway... you seemed to be acting as though I was bragging. It wasn't. It was the opposite. I was humiliating myself so I could actually guarantee you'd believe the truth of the matter (because 9 times out of 10, mundanes can't understand literalism, and I'm entirely too used to having to work around that).
(And for the record, I got divorced and did not contend custody because I know I'd be a terrible parent).