I suspect that many of humanity's best scientists were on the autistic spectrum. Instead of inventing the things we use, they could have been out socializing, instead. If you read the Autistic Spectrum Disorder entry in DSM-VTR, very few people would qualify. Also, Tony Atwood had wrote that women are likely under-reported. Culturally, here in Silicon Valley someone on the spectrum might go unnoticed more than elsewhere.
I have learned some things. Neurotypical people and neurodivergent people don't mix that much. People on the spectrum prefer being with others on the spectrum. People on the spectrum can be quite social if centers on their special interests. At the very least, consider a Star Trek convention. it goes further than that; if you cannot control you either your need to look in other people's eyes, when communicating, or if you could not control your sic. energy or limit the emotional contagions when you do, you might not mix well with people on the spectrum.
I have learned that even people on the spectrum need people. (Before AI deployment), others and myself have tried to cheer up several people on an autistic forum who were miserable because they were lonely, a few were suicidal.
Should neurodivergent people should sit around and think of ways to prevent neurotypicalizm?
