The Double-Empathy problem . Compassion is learned from mythology/education stories in humanity. Empathy exist in animals. Medical industry likes to emphasize that autistic people lack empathy when many studies show they have too much empathy and do not like offending neurotypical society. Let alone does that explain how compassion is learned from art and literature stories.
2. Being told misinformation and wrong information about autism is the norm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1AUdaH-EPM