>>508450222 (OP)I don't know how you view autism: perhaps as a set of symptoms, or perhaps you define it affectively by the general impression you get of autists
how I view it is an envelope-term descriptor for a whole range of idiosyncratic differences in neural topology—strange brain layouts, which differ from what's normal, with varying causes, and varying effects
in most individuals, the changes are deleterious—nonverbal, awkward, unintelligent, stilted, weird, out-of-phase with the rest of humanity
but it can also produce positive qualities alongside the negative: high IQ; oblique modes of thought; great novelty; highly abstract, logical, and analytical interfacing with whole a range of systems
the issue is that normies currently have but a single word to describe the entire gamut of these neurotopological... mutations, and the autismo-superior is perhaps unfairly lumped in with the invalid
it is the former type that people refer to when up-selling the concept as a 'super power'