Nature versus nurture. Rather difficult to winnow out the impact of either, as there are no means to provide a reasonably accurate measure of the contribution of each to the whole. And that is why human beings end up being individually unique, even identical twins. Now, if there a way to produce, say, twenty or fifty identical clones, it may be possible the refine the impact of either nature or nurture.
Still subject to a lot of subjectivity and random error.
And what about the special instance of Asperger’s syndrome? Once thought to be a kind of mental retardation, the individuals subject to this condition have been found to have an IQ level off the charts, but have very limited social skills, and some kind of rigidity of thinking much like obsessive-compulsive disorder. Does it need to be “cured”? Perhaps not, but it takes some very special guidance, not available to many if not most of these individuals.
I worked with one in the IT field. Walking down the hallway I would say HI while passing him and just got a blank stare. When I knocked on his door to ask him a question he was like totally normal.
It is interesting that you bring up Asperger’s syndrome. It runs in my family, and yes those who “suffer” from it tend to have high IQs but poor social skills. It is a “spectrum disorder” meaning that there basically are unlimited combinations of “symptoms” with varying severity.
One of my “work study jobs” long ago was assisting students with learning disabilities. This was a valuable experience for me because I learned that people often have completely different ways of thinking which sometimes makes it difficult to help them. Before that I had assumed that our minds all worked basically the same.
Often the true innovators look at the world in a completely different way.