But, I might add, I've encountered plenty of people with asperger/mild autism within my field since it's almost encouraged to be a social introvert and obsessed with the subject (physics/math). Most of the aspergers in my class went on to pursue PhD's.
Not every person with autism is stupid, and I didn't claim that.
The degree of autism determines how they can gain knowledge.
Aspergers falls under the Autism spectrum now, doesn't it?
Yeah aspegers is one of the 4-5 subtypes.
However it's loosing all its meaning.
Originally Hans Aspergers(Third Reich doctor) called us Autistic Psychopaths.. However this went out of favor for some unknown reason

so they called it aspergers. Anyway for the 50 years after ww2, Autism was almost inseparable with Retardation. So aspergers meant something along the lines of not retarded autism.
Eventually some great mind figured out autism has little to do with retardation(although alot of downs, FAS, etc have autism)
Autistic people in general have the same amount of brain power as anyone else. However it's not appropriately focused like the average persons.
"The degree of autism determines how they can gain knowledge." I actually think that is largely untrue. It seems what a person is interested in, and how one is raised and educated has a larger effect.
My obsession with Social Darwinism allowed me to better understand people far better than even my counter parts with phds can. A lot of liberal beliefs especially shit like femisism seems to be quite toxic for autistic folk.
We're very vulnerable to literal information.