There's a huge difference between not only different types of autism, but individuals with those autistic afflictions.

For example on the high intelligence end of autism you often have people that don't innately understand social cues well. Their mind processes social input in a completely different manner. That doesn't mean however that it cannot become a learned behavior.

This chick is just an attention whore who doesn't understand power dynamics. You will never succeed in politics unless you're either willing to sell yourself like a whore in a market, or to exert such social pressure that you take control of both a the conversation and the room you're speaking in.

What she's telling you to your face there is that she's a weak person and will acquiesce to whoever exerts functional control over here.