[Glathannus]

If the goal were catch a criminal intellectually, I'd prefer to have at least one person with autism among the people working the case. The fact that their biases or sensibilities would be different, could be a huge advantage. The autistic sleuth just has to be high-functioning enough to realize that other humans don't always have the presence of mind to worry about the same kinds of clues the autistic person (as a hypothetical culprit) would consider hiding.

To say that autism shouldn't give a detective any advantage at all (when neurotypicals have so many blind spots of their own), would really be underselling it.

I doubt any one autistic character could satisfy everyone who cares, so I try not to be miffed about whichever examples surface within popular fiction.