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If true, then it might well explain why atheism is a "fringe" belief: the set of atheists has, at a deep level, diminished capacity to communicate with theists and may actually serve to push them away.
Though this brings up the question I've posed to people who are proud of themselves: if we find that the reason you've reached the correct conclusion is that some cognitive feature effectively forecloses your ability to entertain an incorrect one, should you think of yourself as better at reasoning or fortunate in how it is presented?
Careful with your syllogisms. Autism spectrum -> atheist only weakly implies atheist -> autism spectrum.
What it does imply is that autistics will be overrepresented in the set of atheists, hence when speaking to atheists there is a greater likelihood that one is speaking to an autistic than when speaking to theists.