You missed the stage where you don’t want to openly identify as autistic because of the stigma surrounding both autism itself as well as self-diagnosis

You’re forgetting the future stages:

• holy crap! im autistic
• hey everyone, im autistic
• okay, i guess it just explains everything
• nobody seems to care that much
• alright, i’ll go find a good-paying tech/accounting/science job now
• proud to be ASD, if anyone cares