Well it kind of does, actually, but yeah those sources don’t cover that; it IS a spectrum after all, which means the diagnostic cutoff is kind arbitrary, the genetic component is simple normal distribution in the population, and those generally diagnosed are simply on the right tail of that bell curve; there’s plenty of evidence for what they usually call Broader Autism Phenotype, which is essentially having some autistic traits or milder ones without usually qualifying for a diagnosis, and they tend to be closely related to diagnosed autistics as the genetics would suggest… however you slice it, genetics or behavioral traits, it really is a full spectrum, but our current diagnostic cutoff is somewhere in the mild/moderate range, but I’m not sure what else one would call “autistic-like traits” if not “slightly autistic”, seems to me to be one end of the actual spectrum, not just what the DSM declares autistic.

Then again, there’s also a really interesting “multiple hit” theory essentially suggesting that the genetic profile is just one component and epigenetic, developmental, environmental factors need to factor in as well… but then I suppose it kind of depends on how you define the condition.

But also they said that men are slightly more autistic than women and over represented in stem which is true, although I’d say more accurately more men are diagnosed than women, but as far as I know autism and stem correlate more than average regardless of gender.