@KuteboiCoder @Dudebro @veff
I believe it's both... I hate to use the old "autism is a spectrum" bullshit, but when it comes to people who literally are too scared to talk? SURE... I don't mind calling that a defect.
But when it comes to 80% of autists, I would guess they are not even defects as much as behaviors, that no longer work in civilized society. Not to mention, that I came to understand, that in the same way, as a ant hives need soldiers, workers and queen, it's just as possible that human societies were designed to have biological specializations that have effects to this day. (the good old ""all IT guys and scientists are autistic"" meme, but unironically)