Huh, I guess I should post here.
In the 1960s, my father couldn't read at 10. He was told he was retarded and wouldn't pass grade 6. He listened his way through college degrees in biology and chemistry, puzzling through the textbooks at about 80 words per minute, but remembering basically everything his professors said. Dad was also a master carpenter, crack shot, expert swimmer with and without SCUBA, and champion offroad rally driver. He built and maintained two or three high-performance racing cars and a small fleet of taxis while holding down the beginnings of a 35-year career as a high school science teacher. Mean euchre player. His mother was also something of a left-handed tomboy bowling/baseball prodigy, but I barely knew her.
My sister was diagnosed in the 80's as dyslexic (I think she was 12). Never did well in school although she was amazing at sports. Also taught for over 30 years in the high school system. In her 50s she probably reads faster than most people now. Likely 600-800 wpm. Very forceful personality, she advocates tirelessly for disabled children and regularly takes on the local education board.
My older brother rankled when I suggested that he and I fit about sixty percent of the symptoms list that the doctors showed us for our sister. He has an eidetic memory and was reading 1200wpm when he was 10. Computer programmer; one of the first wave of very geekity geek-geeks. Speaks six or eight languages, not including computer code. I would say very low EQ, although he's aged well. Think Mycroft Holmes.
I am a weird one, everyone says. I probably read a little faster than my brother now, but I studied speed reading. Also acting: my memory is not quite as perfect as his but I have my methods. I did well in school, but university bored me, and I ended up generalizing. "I know a little about a lot and a lot about a little." I pick up new things very quickly and I tend to master the things that I stick with.
All three of us have persistent health problems with a variety of symptoms. I recommend a parasite cleanse for anyone who suspects themselves of being "on the spectrum"; if there are advantages, there are also sensitivities, and there is good evidence that parasites are one of them. (I have had excellent results with "para purge" from real raw food dot com.)
Acting, dance and martial arts helped me control many of my psychological symptoms, including (sure) a lack of empathy, name and face "blindness", compulsive behavior, clumsiness, panic response, etc.
Living a "permies" lifestyle also helps. Living in community I can believe in and getting away from the city pacing, noise, emf, etc has really helped me find peace.
I am a big fan of Ron Davis' "The Gift of Dyslexia"; I believe it is still in print. He says that if you face the flaws, the glitches in cognition, and untangle/debug them, your cognition will improve and mastery becomes instinctive.