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It's an atypical neurological state. Depending on the severity and how it manifests itself, it can be focused into productive uses, making it into a performance enhancing condition. For those who are low functioning, it's terrible. For those who are ultra high functioning, it can enable achievements otherwise would be inaccessible.
The problem is that MBAbros have heard about the 'weaponized autism' meme and think it's something they can harness for whatever task they desire. Same mistake happened with FOSS, where clueless corporate managers tried getting rid of their software developers and have "nerd who do it for free" do the company's internal projects, which of course never came the fruition.
There are some companies who understand that autism can be nudged a limited amount and find productive uses for it. Those who see it as another interchangeable work unit cog end up failing, while the autists have the blame dumped on them. Ford and Microsoft are two companies that have explicit departments for autistic employees where they can be paired with productive work that their condition compliments instead of working against it in an exploitive manner.
As bit of an aside, any autistic accommodation that's HR lead is bound to fail. Much like the middle management MBAbros, HR has its own agenda that they think autists can help fulfill instead of trying to create an environment that compliments autistic attributes so they can be productive.
