I think this is an interesting idea, and a possibility.
I agree with the previous posters who said that there is nothing wrong with being autistic. However, if Chris was indeed autistic, I think it must have been a very mild kind of autism, possibly Aspbergers. I read a lot about this at one point when my mum got it into her head that I might have Aspbergers... I was 27 at the time, you would have thought she could have brought it up sooner! But the idea never crossed her mind. She feels, and I agree, that there are a lot of characteristics that may, or may not, qualify as mildly autistic. It could just as easily be explained as society's way of categorising and putting a label on what does not enter into "normal, conformistic behaviour". To be accepted in todays society, you need certain qualities, and anything that falls outside the norm then has to receive a label...
bobenns wrote:http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/9.12/aqtest.html
Psychologist Simon Baron-Cohen and his colleagues at Cambridge's Autism Research Centre have created the Autism-Spectrum Quotient, or AQ, as a measure of the extent of autistic traits in adults. In the first major trial using the test, the average score in the control group was 16.4. Eighty percent of those diagnosed with autism or a related disorder scored 32 or higher. The test is not a means for making a diagnosis, however, and many who score above 32 and even meet the diagnostic criteria for mild autism or Asperger's report no difficulty functioning in their everyday lives.
Lets compare.
I got 11
I got 28. Not quite there, but not exactly average either!