The people I know who are or have children on the spectrum would take issue with your opening sentence. Armstrong might find that a convenient excuse but it shouldn’t erase all of the effort most people put into being considerate.
It was only about the excuse the CEO made, not about anyone else.
Direct all of that energy at him for the representation he is making about people on the spectrum.
If he wants to lean on that as a crutch on all of his organizational decision making skills, then we absolutely get to call him out on that all the time until he does something different.