It makes intuitive sense that there&#x27;s a bias towards mild autism&#x2F;Aspergers in high-skill computer scientists.<p>Most would probably say that their &quot;education&quot; began long before any kind of formal schooling in the topic.  It takes a certain kind of child to stay inside and poke at computers all day instead of going outside and doing something social.  And in general, the hyper-focus of mild autism is exactly the kind of thing that drives people to become highly proficient in a technical topic.<p>And on the flip side, severe autism is a nightmare.  Although modern society doesn&#x27;t really do them any favors - historically there were lots of repetitive tasks that needed doing, a person with fairly severe autism could be perfectly fine working in a bakery or blacksmithing or something.  Nowadays we really have two kinds of jobs - high skilled, for which we expect people to sit through a lot of formal education, and service jobs, which are highly social jobs usually involving &quot;emotional labor&quot;.  Neither of those is very suitable for someone with severe autism.