Is it trendy to be autistic these days?

No - as you can see from some of the ignorance in this comment section, it’s still pretty shitty to be autistic. People still don’t understand that being autistic isn’t being “quirky” or “not good socially”… it’s having a fundamentally divergent neurological wiring than what most have. Autism isn’t some cutesie oddity, it’s a lens that effects your senses and basically filters the way you experience every single moment of every single day.