I have two main things to bring up.

The inability to think clearly should not be labeled as "autism," since autistic people are often able to think incredibly clearly. Isaac Newton or (possibly) Albert Einstein being examples. Terms like autism should be used correctly.

But on the matter of this individual, was this something to the effect of hydrogen being "created" by process X, and this person wanting to split hairs that *technically* the hydrogen was not being created, but only refined???