STEM is not "more autistic" than the humanities

There's an autism stereotype that just won't die, and it never stops bugging me. It's the idea that the "default" autistic person is a STEM person, while an autistic person in the arts or humanities is atypical, an anomaly. The "STEM autistic, arts neurotypical" dichotomy isn't as entrenched as it was a decade or two ago (and boy do I remember how entrenched it was), but I still see it floating…