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I'd wager that some examples of autism back in the day resulted in things like obsessing over the math about change resulting in calculus, or about what happens to things moving at close to the speed of light, resulting in special relativity (and that obsession continued until it was generalized). Or a guy that loved to paint but also invent things that couldn't be made with the tech at the time. Or realize that everything in the solar system is moving the same way and there is no special retrograde movement, it just looks like that because we're moving at a different rate.
I'd wager there's at least a bit of autism involved in most cases where someone realized that conventional wisdom was wrong, with possible exceptions for times when something new gave access to new obvious evidence, like the microscope letting microbes be seen directly.
Autistic people can be intelligent, but all intelligence isn't down to autism.
It's more accurate to say people with Asperges can display characteristics like Einstein than claim he had Aspergers.
Leonardo da Vinci seems to have been quiet sociable. No particular spectrum behavior.
Newton. Well...