Yea, autism is a disorder, there's a lot of conflating that with the "autistic savant" myth in this thread, but I understand it's usually pretty debilitating.

Nonetheless I'd like to point out that there are broad, statistical, gender differences between those who are "thing-oriented" and "people-oriented", that would need to be addressed before we could hope to see 50-50 splits of M/F ratios in every subject today: http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/01/gender-imbalances-are-m...