The research objective of this qualitative study was to discern a new purpose for provision of support to autistic individuals that would thoroughly eschew harmful normalization, which was the traditional purpose of all types of support for hundreds of years. Clinical practice and special education are moving toward a neurodiversity-affirming paradigm; however, complete and widespread paradigm change has proved to be elusive. Autistic professionals, a group with unique experiences as both autistic people and as clinicians, therapists, and educators, were interviewed using emancipatory methodology and a critical disability theory conceptual framework to coalesce their viewpoints on a new purpose for provision of support with enough power to foment lasting paradigm change. In doing so, findings contribute to scholarship on the need to avoid normalization in provision of support and on the desire for paradigm change across professions. Autistic professionals suggest that ensuring autistic people have access to autistic professionals is what will ultimately challenge dehumanizing social constructs that continue to perpetuate and maintain a normalization paradigm sufficiently enough to foment a new neurodiversity-affirming paradigm in clinical support and special education. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://bibliotheek.ehb.be:2222/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.]