I think our current culture tends to push people into a certainty that they may not be inclined to, thus over-representing both atheists and some-sort-of-deists. My observation is that many people do not like uncertainty and are uncomfortable with it. We prefer knowing over not-knowing, and I suspect that many will adopt a position closer to the poles than their facts and knowledge would suggest. There is also quite a bit of herd mentality.
I am an agnostic because I have no faith, not because logic tells me there is no god. This same lack of faith makes me doubt things like the Big Bang (Just because Carl Sagan/Richard Feynman says so is no better to me than "Because the Pope/Mohammad says so". Both sets are Human, and both sets have other agendas and both sets can be wrong).
The big bang, and the rest science provides a more useful tool in predicting what will happen tomorrow than "God Did It", but there's no evidence that "Let There Be Light" wasn't what God said right as he initiated the Big Bang.
You believe what gets you to bed at night, and I'll lay awake with my uncertainty. I've been uncertain about a lot of things for a long time, and I'm not going to say I'm ok with it, but I'm used to it.
Oh, and without having seen a neurologist or psychiatrist (though I've tried), I tend to exhibit many of the symptoms of mild aspergers--down to some of the odd details.
The other thing is my eldest child, who was not raised by me much, has pretty much the same religious beliefs (or lack of same) that I do, tempered by the fact that she's still in her early 20s, and as such feels them SO MUCH MORE.
Atheism only has meaning in the context of someone else's religious beliefs. If you don't know anything about a god you really are by default an atheist. I don't believe in other people's fairys or pink unicorns. That's not a position of absolute knowledge but a skepticism against any mysticism or mythology for which there is no credible evidence. I do not need to examine every set of religious beliefs that anyone has ever held and determine if they sound credible to me before I consider myself an atheist.
"Religious Belief Systems of Persons with High Functioning Autism":
Caldwell-Harris et al 2011.
Mostly as one would expect, although I am troubled that the second survey did not find any difference in agnostics, only the other categories.
See also: "How to be deader than dead".