ASD is offensive?

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Disorder, maybe, but that doesn't mean it has to be fixed (unless for the purposes of functionality), nor that the person automatically has to choose a gender and identify with it. Some people simply don't fit into male/female categories all that easily. Autism's a disorder by the same reckoning, and we're fine with it, for the most part; so why should people born halfway between or completely outside gender boundaries be automatically considered to have something universally negative?

I think it should be Austism Spectrum Difference.

Now let's assume that 99 out of every 100 people were born autistic. Who would be the norm now? Socializing would become a disorder. "That sounds crazy," some of you might say. But seriously, if 99/100 of people were autistic, it would be considered normal, and being NT would be recognized in the books as a disorder. It is the majority that becomes the norm. Personally, being autistic myself, I don't find the ASD term with "disorder" too insulting to me. I voted that I didn't care either way.