It is IMO never a good idea to take a journalistic account of one person's experience, like this one, and treat it as diagnostic information. Doing so leads to inaccurate preconceptions of what autism is. The content of this article refers to one person's experience: for all we know she is gifted/autistic and that may be why the traits overlap.
There are standardized tests (like the ADOS) that should be used to distinguish who is on the autism spectrum.
There is a real difference between introversion and autism, and between giftedness and autism. Expert professionals are equipped to sort this out. I wouldn't do it on the basis of a blog post.
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