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That's a touching story, but something bothered me with the way the article characterized him.
ASD isn't intellectual disability. It can be comorbid, but they only state "autism" and "difficulties learning." ASD is a disability, but the author seems to be worsening the stigma of ASD, whether they are doing it intentionally or not.
Ronnie was sent to a "school for subnormal boys" in the fifties/sixties, it's as likely his low reading and writing levels came from a shockingly poor education as any additional intellectual disability. The state of the art in British psychiatry when Ronnie was a child still considered autism a symptom of schizophrenia.