Autism holds the key to producing human genius. There should be a crash program to understand its causes and perceptual amplifications.
You have a good point here but I wouldn't place too much hope in it. Many of these people can't even dress themselves or talk. Examinations of their brains show profound irregularities, even deformaties. It seems the autistic brain concentrates its attention to some particular activity to the exclusion of everthing else. I wouldn't want any child to be born with this condition.