Again, I'm not sure you're reading what I wrote. These message boards discourage social interaction. That is straight up a counterproductive response, and it leads to people developing bad coping techniques that worsen their situation in the long run.

What I have repeatedly wrote is that those types of responses, which permeate the neurodiversity movement, are bad. I never said that the solution was for people to instead write generic comments telling the person they should socialize. You are again painting this as a false choice between two extremes when it is not.

People should be encouraged to seek help which will likely end up involving more socializing, but that is not the same thing as suggesting people should be aimlessly told to socialize.

I even repeatedly said that it is not about overwhelming the person right off the bat or forcing them into every social situation. Because again we shouldn't be talking about two extremes here. Building up these skills is a process, but it requires acknowledging the deficit before the process can begin.

Neurodiversity movement is often found denying there is a deficit at all, and for ASD people in particular suggesting they should socially withdraw as much as they'd like. That is not the way to build the close relationships you describe. Every relationship short of your immediate family begins with pleasantries.

I am not advising anyone with ASD to do anything at all besides seek professional help for anything they are struggling with, if it is at all possible. Different treatment plans will obviously be used for different people, and I have no idea where you got the idea that I said there are only a few things that can help. Exercise can help some people!

By the way, not eating any food is also harmful dude, so your comment about obesity falls pretty flat. I'm not sure why you think that because there theoretically could be too much socialization that it's okay to tell people they don't have a problem and they should carry on with their shitty defense mechanisms. Because that's exactly what happens when social withdrawal is treated as a perpetually good thing, which is exactly what you will find among the "neurodivergent" preachers.

Since it seems I have to reiterate:
Discouraging people from addressing their symptoms is actively harmful. Telling ASD people that it's okay if they avoid socializing as much as they'd like is one such example.

That's it. I will happily provide you dozens of links showing that lack of socialization correlates with numerous bad outcomes in both the general population and ASD folks. As I've already discussed socialization-based therapies have been shown to improve outcomes in numerous studies. It would be unethical for a clinician to advise people to not socialize, so there is no way to do a causal experiment that shows that discouraging socialization is bad, but there are many reasons to believe so.

I was also providing evidence about treatment because you literally asked about that, and even further claimed that ERP has no evidence in ASD people. It seems much of your info is outdated.

You also seem to not have a good grasp on what kinds of things get posted in these neurodiverse "support" groups. It is not about advice to withdraw from a particularly distressing situation, it is literally a blanket cultural value. People will get likes for posting shit like "I try to avoid neurotypicals as much as possible". I'm not saying that person should be lambasted for the post, I'm sure there are very legitimate reasons they came to that defense mechanism. But it's straight up an unhealthy attitude and it is a sign the person needs help. Not something to encourage and joke about.

And believe me there are people that really feel this way, it is not simply people being edgy on the internet. IMO it is a much broader, worrying cultural trend, that has happened to also affect the way some ASD communities interact.

I'm also not sure why you keep writing half responses and then editing lol, this conversation is all over the place because you keep changing your comments, which makes it much harder to address individual points. I really don't think this is getting anywhere, certainly I haven't gotten anything out of it, so let's both stop wasting our time.