As an aspie who attended Stuy, I find the unstated assumption that the kids at Stuy (and those other elite schools) don't overlap at *all* with the, uh, "special needs crowd" to be, if not quite wildly hilarious, at least quietly amusing.
However, lest we go too far the *other* way - no, not all supergeniuses are autistic, and no, not everybody at Stuy is on the spectrum. (When I was there I'd say the percentage wasn't any higher than in the general population - but it wasn't lower than the general population either, of course.)
However, lest we go too far the *other* way - no, not all supergeniuses are autistic, and no, not everybody at Stuy is on the spectrum. (When I was there I'd say the percentage wasn't any higher than in the general population - but it wasn't lower than the general population either, of course.)