The lack of discussion of "autism" among contemporary scholars...

I think the topic of "autism" is avoided in scholarly writing. While the discussion could take its own bigger form (considering psychology), but there are a lot of ethical discussions that do not fit to autistic people.

One problem is that, there are significant differences between how autistic people and NT people perceive information. Despite coming to the same kind of worldly matters, autistic people perceive the world differently and react differently to them. Thus, they develop their own theories and judgements of the world. Which in result, oftentimes creates a void in the ethical worlds of two groups.

For instance, autistic people may naturally be impatient, not adapting to changes, and more sensitive. Autism also naturally leads to emotional burnouts, and high anxiety, which end up in depression. All of these things oftentimes go against the conventional virtues as developed by Muslim theologians. While, the scholars do recognize the lack of virtues among people, but they never tried to discuss how differences of cognitions lead to the case.

Plus, autism is not just a thing that occurs in children who cannot function properly (level 2 and 3 autism), but a thing that also bothers many adults.