[Comment: My first thought wasn't what people with autism excel at, but perhaps EMF exposure form these types of high tech areas leads to autism. It's odd that that theory was not mentioned in this article or study.]
More Autism Diagnoses in High-Tech Areas, Study Finds
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2011/06/24/more-autism-diagnoses-in-high-tech-areas-study-finds
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/family-health/brain-and-behavior/articles/2011/06/24/more-autism-diagnoses-in-high-tech-areas-study-finds
"Engineers, computer whizzes -- and people with autism -- excel at skills involving 'systemizing,' researchers say. Autism experts have long noted that they meet a lot of engineers and computer programmers who have autistic children compared to, say, salespeople. A new study suggests there may be merit to those observations."