I feel like without autistic people gathering and preserving detailed knowledge about extremely niche topics, historical records would only consist of a few important bullet points and we wouldn't even know what our technology was like just 20 years earlier
Shout out to @samuele963 who inspired this post with their page about the history of electrical power standards in Italy that ended up getting featured on hackaday!
https://samuele963.github.io/electrics/history.html
https://hackaday.com/2024/05/18/how-italians-got-their-power/