Hmm.

Having more than a passing interest in Asperger's Syndrome, this Dilbert transcript struck me as very interesting - exemplifying the way I've started to look at this particularly mild form of Autism. I've been seeing more top-notch techies in dramas portrayed in a way that matches what I've seen of the condition, so it's clear I'm not the only one who's looking at Asperger's with a curious eye.
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"It's worse than I feared."
"What is it?"
"I'm afraid your son has The Knack."
"The Knack?"
"The Knack. It's a rare condition characterised by an extreme intutition
about all things mechanical and electrical, and utter, social ineptitude."
"Can he lead a normal life?"
"No. He'll be an engineer." [Dilbert, "The Knack"]

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As to why I'm curious about it - the statistic I read sometime a couple years ago now was that full-blown autism is on a sharp rise in the Bay Area - an apparent side-effect of where geeks congregate. They're explicitly tying Asperger's to geek-aptitude now. It strikes me as an interesting example of a mutation in the human gene which has an active purpose and is, in fact, advantageous to the species - though only as a subgroup. Pretty incredible.