I frankly don't know. I went to a "gifted school" as a 1st grader that required you to pass an IQ test to get in and have >150 on their chart. This was in the early 1980s. At least half the kids were what we'd now call "on the spectrum". A couple of them were already performing at college level in math by the time they were 11. One of them went straight to UCLA when he was 13. I was programming in HyperCard at the time and could simply not fucking grok the math that the kid at the desk next to me was just absolutely smashing. I was inherently intelligent and I was raised with the best possible chance of getting to that level of competence and ability, but I ended up being an art school dropout who programmed a bitcoin casino and still can't deal with multivariable math unless I write a block of logic for it. I have no idea how or why that kid (Eric Kim was his name) was so much more brilliant than me. We were in the same exact math class with a really great teacher who also happened to teach the afterschool "programming club" in the Mac SE lab, in HyperTalk.

One kid just groks the math. One kid groks the fun(){} ...in a perfect world, those brains should just complement each other, I guess.