Its comical to watch "normal" people try to come up with innovative, different solutions.  They come up with "normal" stuff.
Most great inventors, musicians, painters and scientists, the ones in our history books, would be somewhere on the Autism spectrum today.  
None of them were good lunch conversationalists, or could BS over the latest episode of Survivor.
But, they are, and always will be, the people who innovate.  Jobs, Gates, Zuckerburg..do you see "normal" social behavior there?