>>12129508Well, they do have a certain phenotype combined with below average spatial abilities. So they're automatically going to be better at any academic subject which goes beyond graphing lines on a chart. Performance in upper level math, even upper level physics, basically all the humanities, ect. are based not in autistic traits (spatial abilities), but on verbal. In fact, spatial intelligence is only correlated with performance in the first three semesters of college math: Calc 1-3. So it's not the absolute level of intelligence that makes the difference, but the distribution.
Obviously the engineering sciences are a different story.
