Okay dude, don't need to white knight autists. There's a particular archetype of extremely intelligent and technical yet socially unaware or prickly people that's not unfounded in reality. These are the people who do incredible feats. You need a degree of unagreeableness and arrogance to go against the grain and accomplish great things.

It's a thing, I assure you. And it's pretty common parlance in online / technical culture. We don't need to word police this thing.