It honestly bothers me the way people talk about Laios and Falin’s autism.
Its like, they wanna act like the way they’re treated differently is some “pretty privilege” and because she’s a girl, but they’re actually just ignoring how girls are socialized to be more socially aware, and bottle all of their “weirdness” in.
Falin doesn’t have any privilege over Laios for being a cute girl or whatever. She was raised to have to acknowledge how everyone feels about her at all times, she was literally considering a joyless marriage so people wouldn’t see her as “weird”. post-canon Falin looks so much happier because she is now allowed to do whatever she wants, dress however she wants and go wherever she wants.
You can literally see what im talking about in the way the genderbend short shows how a female Laios would be forced to start a family and looks completely devoid of joy.