Mm, yeah, I just meant along he lines of "Like humans, but a bit more -insert trait here-", like Vulcans, Ferengi etc. Fairly small variations, thus "they could function perfectly well in our society".
kadeton is right though: it would be hard not to interpret a race of autistic-like aliens as saying something about autistic people, and if they were depicted as inherently evil etc due to their "autism", well that would be kind of bad.
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