Maybe we'll see the day that people who are able to read and digest a 1200-page history book will be diagnosed and locked up for their own safety.

lol. I would need a mental institution for sure.

At the extremes, autism is a disability of sorts, of course, but the "spectrum" has been stretched to include just about anybody, as if individual differences aren't supposed to exist, ignoring the fact that few things get designed and built without some engineer somewhere going into "autistic mode" for a while.

awesomely put