Abed from Community is autistic. It’s a comedy show not centered on him. Also there is no mention of autism in Resident Alien but the central character (being an alien learning human behaviour) did resonate with me a lot.
You can also read through this list, there are a lot od autism mentions for many characters - https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DiagnosedByTheAudience
All the shields can be taken down with any weapon, you don’t need anything heavy. I’ve been taking them down with sickle to then one shot tripods with quasar aiming at where their legs connect to the body or just throw a grenade in to landed UFOs open hatch. Haven’t figured out where to aim on flying UFOs to one shot the with quasar yet.