I saw a similar statistic the other day, 1 in 4 people are disabled. Anything past 1 in 2000 should be questionable and looked into, so I did. They were including things like glasses, or allergies.

Same with Autism. They specifically asked a group that would have a high autistic percentage like engineers. What's the difference between autism and an engineer? The degree. Then they expanded the definition to the point of ridiculousness. Do you have a shopping list? Autism.

At no point do we have good things like a really good memory, or being ambidextrous. If it's 1 in 4 autism, then it should also be 1 in 4 gifted of a similar fashion. We don't even know what to call it. If it even gets noticed, they add it to the autism definition.