Many people come from difficult backgrounds such as you elude to anon. I will not ask nor do I need to know the specifics but if I may make some advice as I assume you are younger due to the fact it still is on your mind, know this:
For those who come from dysfunctional or difficult backgrounds such as that, the most of which endured a lifetime of mental anguish and abuse from one parent as the other stood idle and did nothing, for those people their life will forever be different than that of those who did not endure such issues. Individuals from said backgrounds will be faced in their life with two choices and those are that the background warped them and they will continue the cycle either toward their own children but usually toward attempting to poison all those around them to "share the pain". These is becoming more and more common as the nuclear family unit is attacked and kids come from broken single parent homes.
Yet sometimes there are those who come out of it that are, as I stated, forever changed but they meld into a different type of person, a more aware and unique person who, in some cases, can legitimately place themselves into the emotional state of other people. They maintain a true empathy which extends far beyond emotional connection and has pushed the boundaries of what normal individuals believe mankind can recognize or not recognize. They are deeply connected with their own internal dialogue in a way that their dreams, lucid dreams and normal interactions with others gives them distinct insight into many different avenues of past, present and in some cases future events through an enhanced form of something like a streaming deja vu by which they are not some superhuman of course but they have developed such a highly tuned system of logic and recognition that they can piece together events long before events unfold often causing them to sit and internally laugh while internally patting themselves on the back with a "yep… just ask I knew it would happen". These people differ from those who decided to harm others and further the cycle because these people, the few who accept themselves and accept what they have ascended and become, they do not seek to harm others but they seek to attempt to remedy all the ills and issues that they see around them and they know they are the only ones who can because they know people and they know the outcomes of many things before they even happen so they fight for the side of the light and they fight to right a wrong that happened to them through the helping of others. Not in a flashy "look at me" way but these people tend to stay in the shadows and tend not to like attention but to any who know them they are highly respected and often receive praise from random people for a mere explanation of something on something even so simple as a social media post. These people are those who have dropped the pretense of what they are expected to be and have focused on what they are and have used what they are to become something greater than the norm and in that path they have changed many lives for the better through their years while hiding in the shadows or wearing their constant mask of normality because they do not wish to explain how they know what they know or all the things they have spent countless hours looking into and figuring out while the rest of the world claims it either isn't worth the time or is impossible to solve.
These people are what the true "autists" are and they are rare but in places where they come together they feel at home and finally with those who, like them, have endured, persisted and ascended into what they became.