The connection between autism and atypical estrogen signaling has been something I have been studying for a while. This paper explicitly mentions Aromatase, but there are other routes to have estrogen signaling insufficiency or excess such as genetic variants on ESR1. For anyone that wants a deeper dive into sex hormones hormones, how it modulates the brain and in particular estrogen deficiency checkout this well put together literature review: "Giftedness and atypical sexual differentiation: enhanced perceptual functioning through estrogen deficiency instead of androgen excess" https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/endocrinology/articles/...

Many software engineers can be found in this group as having enhanced spatial visualization skills is a perfect fit for coding.