Your personal experience is meaningless. Autism and Aspergers are not the same for everyone. The fact that you are typing this is proof enough. But when you suggest that autistics who stim by slamming their head into a wall don't need special treatment, it's clear you don't understand the full ramifications of what you are suggesting.
Autism is a spectrum. It's not one thing.
> And with things like ADD the `treatment' was almost always much worse than the condition itself.
As someone who was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and is currently taking medication, I can assure you, that's not the case.
While I completely disagree with the (what I hope are troll) comments such as the one you're replying to, one nit-pick: you call him out for judging everything on a single case, then do the same with ADD/ADHD medication. The fact that it works for you doesn't necessarily mean that it isn't "almost always much worse than the condition itself", just as the fact that he thinks he was misdiagnosed doesn't necessarily mean all diagnoses are incorrect / not worth doing.
Autism is a spectrum. It's not one thing.
> And with things like ADD the `treatment' was almost always much worse than the condition itself.
As someone who was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and is currently taking medication, I can assure you, that's not the case.