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This overlaps with Einstein's Superpowers-- it's important to stop believing that people who do things you can't are unanalysably magical or superior.
Of course, Einstein has since been proved not to be neurotypical. It was all over the news. The ... science news.
The problem is that we don't know if Einstein not being neuortypical is the cause of his genius, or the result of a lifetime of thinking in a certain way. Brains aren't static and can change over time, it's entirely possible he was born with a neurotypical brain that became aytpical over the course of his life.
It's possible, yes. But he may, in fact, have had superpowers unavailable to the rest of us.
What type of non-neurotypical was he?
The complicated kind.
Wikipedia says "Scientific studies have suggested that regions involved in speech and language are smaller, while regions involved with numerical and spatial processing are larger. Other studies have suggested an increased number of glial cells in Einstein's brain."