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I find the fact that raising someone to be creationist involves explicitly teaching them provably false things - and, in most cases, demanding that they express belief in those things to remain on good terms with their family and community - to be relevant. Having a child who's deaf or autistic doesn't intrinsically involve that.
(Yes, if I procreate, I intend to make a point of teaching my offspring how being autistic is useful. Even so, they'll still be completely entitled to disagree with me about the relative goodness of being autistic compared to being neurotypical.)
This may be a bit personal, but are you concerned about having a child on the highly autistic end of the spectrum? (ie. no verbal communication, needs a carer, etc.) To me that seems like a possible cosequence of deliberately stacking the deck, and it would make me wary of doing so.
In the sense of 'consider it a significant enough possibility that I'd make sure I was prepared for it', yes. In the sense of 'would consider it a horrible thing if it happened', no. I'm not going to aim for that end of the spectrum, but I wouldn't be upset if it worked out that way.