There I think of people regarding dislike of the "big" light as being an indicator for autism(???).

Makes one wonder if vampires are autistic.

Autistim is the new 'touched by god'.

That's a very informal, essentially slang usage of the word. It's so informal that it's pointless to argue about whether it's even correct. At any rate better word could certainly have been chosen.

to an religious extent

yeah, I don't think that applies here

Either you're using "literally" in a non-literal fashion, or you're using it to make your statement even more incorrect.

literally what it means

Literally not

People treat words like divine tangible streams of meaning when they’re just sounds we make

Completely unrelated, seems like you have a bug up your butt about something else. Also I'm pretty sure nobody thinks that either, sorry a prescriptivist upset you but that has no relation to what I said.