Which is something the world could probably use more of. I don't see why we have to label it as some kind of condition or social stigma.
Your reply is very well put, and I happen to agree with you. Many of our best entrepenuers fit that category as well, they do not fear failure, they do not feel embarrassment the way most people do, they may be averagely talented people but with extraordinary tenacity and focus. I could use more of those same qualities in my own life.
Some have speculated that Joan of Arc and Michaelangelo were both high functioning Aspergers individuals.
What a tremendous number of people fail to understand is that "Normal" is a statistical construct. Very few members of any population fall on that line.
We used to accept the socially acceptable deviations from what we considered "normal" and recognize some of those were, in fact, talents or remarkable abilities.
No serious scientist or researcher looking for a cure to this or the answer to that does much but live and breathe the problem they are trying to solve--even when they are doing something else. We used to call that level of drive a "passion" for their work, and without that phenomenon, much of what we consider to be mere modern convenience would not have been developed when it was.
It is only recently, in the great quest for homogeneity and socialist sameness, that we have gone from calling that virtue to demeaning it as an obsession.