the problem is that autists need tenure because teaching and securing new positions and making side hustle money requires people skills, and right now there's no tenure available. boomers occupy most of the slots, and all the new academic hires aren't professorial but stuff like "diversity and teenage sexual ethics committee member", which is the sort of thing that actively threatens well-meaning autists
spendy might come off here as a mega-aut but i can tell you from personal experience that he's quite capable of doing person stuff. surely he has different problems.