All joking aside, we have to remember that it is a questionnaire to identify persons with autistic tendencies, not persons with math aptitude. You can obviously be a mathematician with no autistic tendencies or a non-mathemetician with autistic tendencies. There just seems to be more often a reltionship between the two than not.
I did read a good article that states that there must be an evolutionary benefit to these kinds of tendencies or they would have been selectively bred out. It states that perhaps these tendencies should be looked at as a difference instead of a disability. If I can find the article again I will link it.
You mean the ability to sit in one place staring at one thing for long periods of time as well as an ability to make things?
Sounds like hunting to me.
