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It's a spectrum. People range from being completely "normal" to "highly" autistic by way of every point in between.
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My inexpert suspicion is that many forms of schizophrenia sit on the same spectrum, on the opposite side from.
Mainly down to the way that extreme schizophrenics often consider almost everything to have agency (and from this comes paranoia) while low-functioning autistics often don't even perceive other people as entities with agency.
It's most likely wrong, but I find it to be an interesting perspective.
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If a Mensa transcending IQ, behavioral pattern recognition super powers and an obsessive fixation on cognitive abnormalities aren't the right tools to make the call, then what the hell are? Professional practitioners are only trained by the findings of the professional researchers and philosophers on their subjects.
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I wouldn't even trust a certified and world-renowned expert to self-diagnose their own cognitive and behavioural condition. The inside perspective is too narrow and self-restricting.