You’re forgetting the future stages:
- holy crap! im autistic
- hey everyone, im autistic
- okay, i guess it just explains everything
- nobody seems to care that much
- alright, i’ll go find a good-paying tech/accounting/science job now
- proud to be ASD, if anyone cares
That really depends on which philosophy you subscribe to.
The TL;DR is that existential and post-modern philosophy say it’s varying degrees of relative, while everything anyone said before ~1800 was saying that facts were immutable.
One fact I can glean is that the data itself may be real (e.g., the wavelengths of light that hit your eyeballs) but the perception is a composite illusion of our mind (e.g., the fact that you just saw a kitty).