Interesting. I know a woman who also has two austistic kids (fraternal twins) and she herself is an Engineer.
You have heard of Asperger’s syndrome, the so-called Bill Gates syndrome? It’s just a variant form of Aspers. I think that my brother has it. It seems to be an over abundance of logic and a deficit of emotion, combined with an exaggerated sense of self interest. There are all levels and a myriad of types of autism, it seems. When we were in grade school the school board sent a delegation to our home to inform my parents that my brother had scored higher on the IQ test than anyone in the school district had ever scored, yet, he was essentially a disinterested student.