Wikipedia:High-functioning autism and Asperger's editors

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This page in a nutshell: Editors on the autism spectrum may have different wiring patterns in their brains, but that does not mean they are stupid. Understand their differences and try to make good use of them!

Wikipedia is the ultimate honeypot! If a group of researchers had been given the task of creating a working/hobby environment specifically designed to attract autistic people, they could not have come up with anything better than Wikipedia!

As with many things, when it comes to real-world applications, autism spectrum disorder is probably best not thought of as a "disorder" or "disability", as it is really just differences in thought-processing methods. Adding the label of disorder or disability changes the way we think about things; it shifts us into the paradigm of deficiency, whereas in real terms it can be just "less usual", in the same way that some hair colours, some eye colours, etc. are "less usual".