[hnbad]

I think there's some overlap in spirit between the autistic community and the deaf community (in so far as you can cast this wide a net and call it "a community") in that the reason some deaf people argue against a cure is that it would eliminate deaf culture (e.g. sign languages). There's no real equivalent in the form of "autistic culture" but this is at least in part because most autistics who are able to have learned to "mask" (i.e. try to hide their autistic traits often to the point where they forget they're doing so). There's still a specific way of thinking and form of humor that's shared by many autistic people and which they fear would be lost if they were "cured".

Additionally the deaf community has every reason to be skeptical of a cure because many so-called cures come with massive caveats. For example Cochlear implants are often seen as a magical cure for deafness but there are many reports from formerly deaf people of experiencing intense discomfort if they gain any meaningful hearing from them at all. But due to the existence of these "cures" non-deaf people are more likely to treat deafness as a choice and affordances for deaf people as unimportant - similar to how according to some studies bicyclists are treated with less care by drivers when visibly wearing helmets.