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https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9058071/ (if "strong affinity" means "bimodal distribution and I ignore the lower pole")

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38497251/ (if "engineering and computer science" means "IT")

I don't know if it's actually true but the idea is interesting.

There's plenty of data on the clustering of high-functioning autistic workers in engineering and computer science, and the massively disproportionate share of autistic children with fathers and grandfathers in those fields. I work across technical and non-technical academic fields and the difference is quite obvious. It also follows naturally from some of the common presentations of autism, e.g., the high co-occurrence of dyslexia.

There's this trend on the internet to attribute success at any remotely technically challenging problem to the glorious power of autism.