Regarding atheism and autism, something that struck me as significantly different about the views regarding theism on Less Wrong (which has a self-reported high frequency of autistic tendencies) -- as well as similar views among 'New Atheists' -- is that they try to force theistic beliefs into overly literal interpretations, so that the beliefs the atheists ultimately disagree with don't seem to really represent what theists believe.
Forcing overly literal interpretations is a stereotypical autistic trait, though I now classify it as also a broadly atheist trait with perhaps some overlap.
Sometimes, maybe mostly, theists actually are 'wrong' in some sense. But often they're just espousing a perspective. The uselessness and vacuity of this perspective as applied to the real world has impressed me since my conversion to ideas such as 'make-beliefs-pay-rent', but I force myself to apply the principle in the other direction too: I won't argue with a theist unless they insist on something which actually makes a prediction different than the prediction I would make. Otherwise, it's just not a real argument about something, and not worth it. So I hardly every argue with theists.
Possibly this has to do with the sort of 'theists' one is exposed to? I would not have said "overly literal" or "just espousing a perspective" myself, but I am aware my perception of the wider 'theist' community is somewhat skewed by attempting to get a degree in psychology at a university where more than half the faculty believe in possessing demons.
(On a not-unrelated note: faith healers are evil.)
"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".